Example of Positional Chess Masterpieces?
The orthodox advice is "study the games of Capablanca, Smyslov and Karpov". You might as well look at the games of Kramnik and Carlsen. However, I would say that anybody under the level of FIDE Master will benefit from studying the games of "random" 2700+ players, as they are all very strong in positional play.
Thanks for the recommendations. Are any of these annotated by chance? I'm not I'm good enough to even know what these guys were doing positionally. lol. I realize that I may not even know how to study positional chess, because I'm not necessarily sure what to look for. It seems things are not as obvious as they are with a tactic that's easily identifiable when pulled off successfully.

I can annotate one of the games to the best of my ability though I'm pretty sure that Informant has covered both games before (Linares being one of the greatest tournaments ever while the Karpov game is from one of the most epic world championships in history)

http://www.chessgames.com/index.html
All the master games you could ever want and some are annotated.
Karpov won this one? Why did Kasparov resign in the end? Where was the checkmate threat from?
Also, I had no idea what each person was doing much of the time!!
(Note: This is in response to post #7 in case anyone was wondering.)
Karpov won this one? Why did Kasparov resign in the end? Where was the checkmate threat from?
Also, I had no idea what each person was doing much of the time!!
(Note: This is in response to post #7 in case anyone was wondering.)
There's actually a forced mate from that position :) For example Qc5 and Qb8 are threats.
For most of the game Karpov maneuvered using his light square dominance to attack Kasparov's king.
Here's a mate in 4 puzzle:
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I've been wondering how to go about studying positional chess and have been wanting to find some games that are considered positional masterpieces to learn from.
Does anyone know of any specific games that would fit this category? Thanks!