Example of Positional Chess Masterpieces?

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defenserulz

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! 

TheGreatOogieBoogie



NeilnNikki

If you are done with capablanca You can start with smyslov's games.

Synaphai

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.

defenserulz

Thanks for the recommendations.  Smile  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.

TheGreatOogieBoogie

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) 

Mika_Rao
Spiritbro77

http://www.chessgames.com/index.html 

All the master games you could ever want and some are annotated.

defenserulz
Mika_Rao wrote:
 

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!!  Laughing

(Note:  This is in response to post #7 in case anyone was wondering.)

defenserulz

Oh...Queen B8!?!  Tongue Out

Mika_Rao
defenserulz wrote:
Mika_Rao wrote:
 

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:

Mika_Rao
achja wrote:

Maybe both teams analysed the whole night long and concluded that white was going to win in all lines.

Unless the people on their teams were rated under 1300 then I don't think it would take all night Laughing

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