Hey all,

I'm a big Game Collection afficionado and i wanted your suggestion on collection game books that covers well all the phases of the game (Opening, Middlegame, Ending). A lot of them just cover very briefly the opening, extensively the middlegame and then the endgame with a lot of computer variations. I try, with game collection, to understand the idea and the pawn structure arising from some specific openings. Sometimes i'd like to know the thoughts/reasoning of a GM of an opening move and/or a strategical decision heading from the opening to the middlegame.

Something like Logical chess move by move. Here are some books that i already own in this style:

.Logical Chess move by move (was my first book)
.Understanding chess move by move
.Winning Chess Brilliancies (loved it, but too short)
.My Best games 1905-1954 by Tartakower
.50 Lessons Essential Chess Lessons (the first chapters)
.Zurich 1593 by Bronstein (more middlegame but a lot of opening phases are covered)
.The mammoth book of  the World's Greatest chess games
.The art of logical Thinking


I also own the first "My great predecessors" but i find kasparov's writing style heavy in variations
And "Chess secrets: The giants of strategy" which i love but they often dismiss completely the opening phase and the transition to the middlegame.

Thanks a lot in advance and good day

Most Instructive Games of Chess ever Played by Chernev

Chess Master versus Chess Amateur by Euwe  and Meiden

Chess Secrets by Edward Lasker

Also specific Players annotating their best games in book form, ie;

My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FIscher

Game collections of Boris Spassky, TIgran Petrosian, Mikhail Botvinnik, Alexander Alekhine, Lajos Portisch, etc.

I don't have much openings in this list. But covers other aspects.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/which-chess-books-for-whom

too much choice without knowing content to help me but thanks for the list Mohan_Kumar_chess
Just had a look at en excerpt of Keres Road to the top, it has various openings phases and he seems to annotate quite a lot of moves

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/

Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions - Seirawan

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708100156/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review751.pdf

http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Chess-Duels-My-Games-With-The-World-Champions-79p3557.htm

https://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/history-and-general-works-part-2.-john-watson-book-review-97

Thanks for the feedbacks. Having a look in chess library, I find great joy in the two Keres books the "100 selected games" by Botvinnik also looks good. But descriptive is very hard when not used to...

I have not seen any Karpov, Petrosian or Portisch unfortunately...

I also had a look at Anands and Kramniks life and game but, especially the second, they didn't had that much annotation (in my taste).

Best advice I heard from a GM: read and keep reading any of those books you have over and over. Some GM's either could not afford a book or couldn't obtain it, reading the same book over and over. It worked for them. It will work for you.

Thing is, game collections are not meant to cover opening theories or practical endgame study. 
There are three books on Karpov’s games that focus on open, semi-open and closed games but do not focus on endgame study; Karpov has a separate book of his games used to show endgames that can happen during tournament play. 
Same with Capablanca, a couple of books have focused on his games for the endgame  brilliances, but you wouldn’t use the same books as references for opening preparation. 

There was a fourth one: Semi-Closed Openings in Action

https://www.amazon.com/SEMI-CLOSED-OPENINGS-ACTION-INTERMEDIATE-Anatoly/dp/0020218052

Missed that. Been a while since I read them. Thanks for the save!

You should know that Anand, Kramnik and Karpov have a combined total of 18 game collection books that focus on their opening strategies. These were published by Chess Stars. They are annotated in the style of Chess Informant: no words, only variations.
 

https://www.chess-stars.com/Anand.html

https://www.chess-stars.com/book_list.html

Interesting, have you read one of them? Haven't found many review but like the concept! 

The four Karpov books are quite thin. The danger with older opening theory books is the potential outdated chess “search for truth.” Due to the nature of older Batsford books from the 90s, expect light annotations for each game. I also strongly advice to check the opening theories against the strongest chess computer you can afford for correctness.

As for practical endgame books on Karpov, Capablanca and even Carlsen, you should find at least six books between their names. If you can pull off the same endgame mastery just as the WCs, kudos! You’re already headed into the right direction.

I also recommend Chess Master v Chess Amateur by Euwe. I'm reading it now - great book.

One can use the "Look inside" feature at

https://www.amazon.com/SEMI-CLOSED-OPENINGS-ACTION-INTERMEDIATE-Anatoly/dp/0020218052

in order to get an idea of what the book is like.

https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Chess-Lyudmil-Tsvetkov-ebook/dp/B07SPFTJSZ/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1571012503&refinements=p_27%3ALyudmil+Tsvetkov&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Lyudmil+Tsvetkov

Get this one, "The Fine Art of Chess".

What you get is:

1) 812 pages, 4 times the volume of Logical Chess and Understanding Chess

2) all phases of the game covered

3) almost certainly the most precise lines, human + computer checked, you will find in any existing book

4) the best chess opening moves, objectively

5) move-by-move, half a page dedicated to each and every move

6) human + computer games

7) almost all world champions, of yore and current ones, Carlsen included

8) supposedly, fun to read; the book starts slow, but further down the line things get pretty intriguing

9, 10, 11 and 12 - I forgot, lol, but those counts are valid.