There's one thing you have to understand about Kasparov. He wanted to be Alekhine. And he was kind of Alekhine's spiritual successor. That lineage is very important in chess. It goes Blackburne-Alekhine-Kasparov, the calculational attackers. Give it a good think: do you want to learn from the calculational attackers? What are you going to add to the art of deep calculation and monster preparation?
By the way, it doesn't have to be perfect. You are a beginner, just read the games and try to play that way. Don't think, just do.
I copy a message which I sent last week to Mr. Silman, hoping he would answer it in one of his posts. Unfortunately he didn't (yet) so I recur to your wisdom:
Dear Mr Silman,
Lately I followed a piece of advise in order to improve my game which has been preached by many masters and strong players, including yourself:
To choose a "model", a former Champion to study and imitate. So I chose Kasparov, becasuse why not?.
I started reading his auto biography and I realised that his games are awfully complicated, full of variations and tactical trouble. I am at a loss trying to understand beyond move 15 of any of the games which appear in the book.
What should I do? Should I insist and go on reading? Or is it a waste of precious time, which will not contribute to the development of my chess mind?
Thank you very much!
The thing is, I am a low rated player so I don't have a "style" of play, so I really dom't know which player to choose.