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These collections should help to use the books they belong to. They are not intended to replace the books they are based upon. For those books that are still in print I have added links to the info-pages at the internet-bookshops Amazon.com or its german branch Amazon.de. Following those links you can find information about availability, prices and in many cases also interesting reviews of people who have read that book.

Some of these collections are annofritzed (as in the case of Bobby Fischers "My 60 memorable Games"), in other cases (like in the case of the Euwe/Kramer book "The Middle-Game" (dt. "Das Mittelspiel") most of the games are not annofritzed. Usually the games/positions are sorted in the same way as they appear in the books. Sorry, some collections are incomplete!

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  • pan-egc.zip pan-egc_corr.zip Pandolfini's Endgame Course (Simon & Schuster Books; ISBN: 0671656880)! Thanks to Bill Simpson for his great editorial work! Thanks to Bill Mendus for his corrected version! See the excellent reviews of this paperback at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE] (03/Nov/2003)
     
    • kerespower.zip Power Chess. By Paul Keres - Thanks to Michel Desmarais! (29/Jul/2003)
     
    bvk.zip Bishop vs. Knight: The Verdict. By Steve Mayer - Thanks to Divya Gulati! (29/Jan/2002)
     
    best_less.zip Best Lessons of a Chess Coach by Sunil Weeramanty - Thanks to Aaron Schepler! (26/Nov/2002)
     
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    [Amazon]         		rivsup.zip How to win against a superior Opponent by Edmar Mednis - Thanks to Silvio Canto! (29/Jan/2002)
     
    wcb.zip Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser Seirawan - Thanks to Tim Brennan! (16/Jan/2002)
     
    capafund.zip Chess Fundamentals by Jose Capablanca - Thanks to Malcolm Trevillian! (13/Nov/2001)
     
    solt_spa.zip Spassky's best games by Andrew Soltis. - Thanks to Ernesto Gianola! (26/Sep/2001)
     
    karpbest.zip Karpovs best games by Anatoly Karpov. - Thanks to Omar Reyes Huismannen! (09/Jun/2001)
     
    posplay.zip Positional Play by Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov. - Thanks to Omar Reyes Huismannen! (09/Jun/2001)
     
    possac.zip Positional Sacrifices by Neil McDonald. [English version at Amazon.de] - Thanks to Omar Reyes Huismannen! (09/Jun/2001)
    kij.zip King in Jeopardy by Lev Alburt. [English version at Amazon.de] - Thanks to Rob Morse! (06/Jun/2001)
    hkw.zip How Karpov Wins by Edmar Mednis. [English version at Amazon.de] - Thanks to Om R. Huismannen! (06/Jun/2001)
    mitrdefl.zip Mitrofanov's Deflection by Victor Charushin - Thanks to Kevin Fonseca! (17/Apr/2001)
    amateur.zip The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman- [English version at Amazon.de] Thanks to Curtis Thetford! (11/Apr/2001)
    gmofches.zip Grandmaster of Chess by Paul Keres - Thanks to Bill Simpson! (17/Apr/2001)
    19081923.zip Alekhine's Best Games 1908-1923 by Alexander Alexhine [English version / German version at Amazon.de] Thanks to Gary Lewis! (04/Apr/2001)
    19241937.zip Alekhine's Best Games 1924-1937 by Alexander Alexhine [English version at Amazon.de] Thanks to Gary Lewis! (04/Apr/2001)

    strength.zip Discover your Chess Strength by Raymond Keene. Another contribution of Silvio Canto - thanks! (11/Apr/2001)
    magictal.zip "The Magic of Mikhail Tal" by Joe Gallagher. Thanks to Gary Lewis! Available also at [Amazon.de]. (04/Apr/2001)

    kinghunt.zip "The King Hunt (in Chess)" by H. W. Cozens. Thanks to Silvio Canto for this nice contribution of annofritzed games! (14/Mar/2001)

    mcb.zip "Modern Chess Brilliancies" by GM Larry Evans. Thanks to Silvio Canto for this nice contribution of annofritzed games! (08/Jan/2001)

    reshbgoc.zip "Reshevsky's Best Games of Chess" by Samuel Reshevsky . This book was first published as "Reshevsky on Chess" in 1948. The games have been annofritzed with Fritz 6a on a PIII-450 @ 20 seconds a move. Many thanks to Marek Soszynski! (08/Jan/2001)

    Older collections
    (sorted by Author's name)

    1. pocket.zip (Some) Positions from Lev Alburt's "Chess Training Pocket Book : 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas"; provided by Ken Cobb. Thanks to Ken! Here is a review of Alburt's book at the Chess Cafe. The book is available atAmazon.com or at Amazon.de.

    2. winpawn.zip "Winning pawn structures" by Alexander Baburin.

    3. botv100a.zip The games of Botvinnik's 100 Selected Games (Dover Publications; ISBN: 0486206203); This Dover paperback is available at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE] . This collection was edited with CB-style annotations by Bradley Loh. Thanks for his great work!
       

    4. 100gcg.zip The 100 games of Burgess'/Nunn's/Emms' "Mammoth Book of the World's greatest chess games"! ZIP-file contains a version without (100gcg.cbh) and a version with annofritzations (100gcg_a.cbh)! For more information about this cheap paperback see the extensive online reviews at Amazon.com or at Amazon.de

    5. endings.zip "Capablanca's Best Chess Endings"by Irving Chernev. Another fine contribution of Paul Lee Robinson. Thanks!

    6. lc-mbm.zip Irving Chernev's classic "Logical Chess - Move by Move", edited by Bill Simpson. Thanks for this very nice contribution! Batsford (ISBN: 0713484640) has recently brought out a new algebraic edition of that chess - classic. The reviews at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE] are enthusiastic!

    7. chernev.zip The games of the book The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev. This collection has been provided by Sean Welski . Many thanks! See the excellent reviews of this cheap Dover paperback at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE]!

    8. sul_khan.zip The games of the book "Mir Sultan Khan" by R. N. Coles (BCM Quarterly No 10, 1965). This very nice collection with a very helpful index page was provided by Bill Simpson. Thanks!

    9. sor.zip "Strategic Opening Repertoire" by John Donaldson.

    10. dunne.zip "How to become a candidate master" by Alex Dunne . Annofritzed with HIARCS 7.32. Another fine collection by Alberto Porta!

    11. ****** Games /Positions from Euwe/Kramer's The Middlegame (dt. "Das Mittelspiel" is until today the most complete treatise on this subject. It took Euwe originally more than 10 years to finish this project in 12 small volumes. Today this book is available in a nice 2-volume algebraic figurine edition with main author Kramer, published by Hays Publications. At Amazon.com you can find The Middlegame: Book I and The Middlegame: Book II . The german edition (1 volume, +700pp, Ed. Rattmann, ISBN 3-88086-55-6) is still available at some specialized chess-dealers (like http://niggemann.com), but no longer among the german books in print. Here are two versions of complete collections belonging to this book!

    12. euwe_t.zip This collection contains games of the two Euwe books which are in combined in the Italian volume Trattato di Scacchi (Treatise on Chess; publisher: Mursia). Thanks to Giorgio Chinnici for his little euwe_t.cbv and to Agostino Barrasso for his more comprehensive tds_euwe.cbv contribution!

    13. euwemeid.zip "Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur" by Max Euwe and Meiden(Deutsch: "Amateur wird Meister")

    14. nichess.zip "New ideas in Chess" by Larry Evans is one of those much appraised classical low-budget Dover chess-books. Thanks to Elmer Barroa from the Philippines for this fine contribution! This book is also available via Amazon.de!

    15. bf60.zip Bobby Fischer's "My 60 memorable Games" (annofritzed file with 5 seconds per move).

    16. fisch60.zip Bobby Fischer's "My 60 memorable Games" (annofritzed file with 90 (!!) seconds per move) . Many thanx for this file to Roy (brunjes ). According to Amazon.com this book is out of print.

    17. cago.zip "Capablancas best Games"by Harry Golombek. A fine contribution of Capablanca-fan Paul Lee Robinson - now also with all games annofritzed! Thanks!

    18. heemsoth.zip The games of Hermann Heemsoth's "75 meiner schönsten Partien". Heemsoth was a great german CC-player.

    19. chessplay.zip The Chess as I play it by Paul Keres. The 105 games were collected from the spanish version "El Ajedrez como yo lo juego" by Miguel Casals Pinar - thanks!

    20. rub.zip "Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games" by Hans Kmoch. Another nice contribution of Paul Lee Robinson. Thanks! (07/Sep/2000)

    21. thinkgm.zip Alexander Kotov's famous classic Think like a Grandmaster [Amazon.DE] was collected including all variations, but without written comments by Dr. Y. Kuan. Many thanks for this nice contribution!

    22. bl50.zip Bent Larsen's "50 best games"! From the Danish book "50 udvalgte partier 1948-68" (50 selected games 1948-68) of Bent Larsen. Villy Fink Isaksen has compared the annofritzations with Larsen's own comments! Look at this collection, if you wanna know about the value of annofritzations! Thanks to Villy Fink in beautiful Denmark!

    23. kan.zip "Winning with the Kan" by Ali Mortazavi.

    24. alek_mue.zip This collection contains the 100 games of the Book "Schachgenie Aljechin" (Chess Genius Alekhine, German); Authors: Hans Mueller and A. Pawelczak. This excellent book was published by "Das Schacharchiv" (K. Rattmann, Hamburg, Germany).

    25. mysys.zip Collection of positions and games of the classic "My System" ("Mein System") ofAaron Nimzowitsch! Thanks to Uwe Rößner for that contribution! The beautifully edited "21st century edition" (Hays Pub; ISBN: 1880673851) of this chess classic is available at Amazon.com or at Amazon.de.

    26. chesspr.zip "Chess Praxis" (dt: "Die Praxis meines Systems") by Aaron Nimzowitsch is the 'twin' of Nimzowitsch's famous "My System". This book has been relaunched in an algebraical '21st century edition' by Lou Hays. Thanks to Pascal Petermans for this great classic! This book is also available via Amazon.de!

    27. nunnsogp.zip Positions and games of John Nunn's & Peter Griffith's Secrets of Grandmaster Chess. Thanks to Spencer Lower for this great contribution.

    28. pach_mcs.zip Positions and games of Ludek Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy [Amazon.UK/DE]. The english edition is a Dover classic. In German Moderne Schachstrategie, II and Moderne Schachstrategie, III are still available. Many thanks to Jeff Hurt for his "humble contribution".

    29. cuds.zip The games of the classical dutch chessbook "Combinaties uit de schaakpartij", written by L. Prins; published in 1935 in Den Haag. Michael Langeveld did a great job with this collection! Many thanks!

    30. levpol64.zip The Games of Lev Polugaevsky's book "Grandmaster Performance", (Everyman Chess, ISBN 1857440684; other editions with ISBN 0080269133), annofritzed with Fritz4 (=Extreme Chess) by Jim Monaghan. Many thanks for this contribution! This title seems to run out of print at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE].

    31. prize.zip Fred Reinfeld's Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters" Thanks again to Paul Robinson for this fine contribution!

    32. wac.zip Win at Chess by Fred Reinfeld. Another classic been provided by Alberto Porta - many thanks!

    33. igcap.zip The games of Fred Reinfeld's book: "Immortal games of Capablanca"(239pp, Dover Publications; ISBN: 0486263339) This collection (with some light annotations) was provided by Gary Gauthier. Thanks! See the enthusiastic reviews of this cheap Dover paperback at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE]

    34. motc.zip Richard Reti's classic"Masters of the Chessboard" Thanks to Paul Robinson for this beautiful contribution! (25/Feb/2000)

    35. 666_400.zip 666 Kurzpartien (short games) or "die Hohe Schule der Schachtaktik" by Kurt Richter (in German) and 400 Kurzpartien by Abram Roisman (in German, orig. Russian). Both game-collections in one file . Some games are missing or dupes, altogether there are only 990 games. Thanks to Heinrich Zödl from beautiful Styria, Austria for that contribution!

    36. rincon1.zip Several collections apparently belonging some spanish books: Study Chess With Tal of Koblentz and Tal, My Favorite Endgames of Karpov and Gyk, The Middle Game Planning of Romanowsy. Thanks to IM Raśl Ocampo , Mexiko for this contribution!

    37. rincon2.zipThe second collection of files belonging to spanish books, provided by IM Raśl Ocampo , Mexiko! IN this file you find: My Chess Career of Capablanca, The Most Instructive Games Ever Played, The Blockade of Nimzovich, A reappraisal of Nimzovich, of Keene.

    38. rincon345.zip The third, fourth and fifth collection of collections belonging to Chessbooks; some with spanish comments, provided by IM Raśl Ocampo , Mexiko! (17/Oct/2000)

    39. samarian.zip Sergiu Samarian: Das systematische Schachtraining , Falken Verlag. ISBN 3 8068 0857 0. Many thanks to Walther Luehrig for that very nice contribution. samareng.zip - This the same file with english comments by Fritz, provided by Silvio Canto.

    40. fob.zip The games of Alexei Shirov's "Fire on Board". (Cadogan Books; ISBN: 1857441508). The reviews of that book at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE] are quite impressive! Randy Bauer rated Fire on Board in his review as book of the year 1997!

    41. htryc.zip For all the many Silman-fans out there: the positions and games of Jeremy Silman's "How To Reassess Your Chess"! See 36 online recensions with an excellent rating of this outstanding book at Amazon.com or at Amazon.de

    42. slmend.zip "Essential Chess Endings Explained Move by Move" by Jeremy Silman. Thanks to Jeffrey Hurt for that contribution!

    43. sac.zip An extract of about 50 games from the book "The Modern Chess Sacrifice" by Shamkovich, published at McKay. The games were provided and annotated by Robert Pawlak (thanks!), the maker of "Chess Widower's Home Page".

    44. endshrsh.zip Mikhail Shereshevsky's "Endgame Strategy" is a fine contribution of Paul Bishop. Thanks!(31/Jan/2000)

    45. smys125.zip The games of a book containing V. Smyslov's 125 Selected Games; provided by Pascal Petermans. Thanks! This book is available at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE] .
       

    46. aodsoltis.zip The Art of Defence in Chess by Andrew Soltis. A fine contribution of Mark Ratcliff - many thanks!

    47. tal_solt.zip (Some) games of the Andrew Soltis' book "Tal, the magnificent". (I don't know whether this collection is complete). Collected by Ryan.

    48. gmsecret.zip Another endgame book: Andrew Soltis: Grandmaster secrets: Endings (Thinker's Books; ISBN: 0938650661). It has top-rating reviews at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.DE]!

    49. spiel_as.zip Spielmann's classic "The Art of sacrifice". (197pp, Dover Publications; ISBN: 0486284492). Thanks for this contribution to Dr. Timothy McGrew! This paperback is reviewed at Amazon.com or at Amazon.de.

    50. simple.zip Simple Chess by Michael Stean. This nice collection has been provided by Alberto Porta - thanks!

    51. ****** lgtal.zip Games of Mischa Tal's autobiography  "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal"! Almost all games are annofritzed. Includes also (in a separate database) the "additional" games, which are at the begin of each chapter of the book . (Cadogan Books; ISBN: 1857442024). Warning! When you read the reviews at Amazon.com or at [Amazon.UK/DE] , you will most probably want to buy this thick paperack - if you don't have it already! It is one of my personal top favorite chessbooks.

    52. aoca.zip "The Art of Chess Analysis"by Jan Timman. Thanks to F. Spooner for this very nice contribution!

    53. ****** attack.zip The relaunch of an all-time classic! Vladimir Vukovic's Art of Attack in Chess [Amazon.UK/DE] was originally written more than 60 years ago, but it is still definitely the best book on this subject and one of my personal favorites, too. An example: Vukovic discusses precisely the criteria that are required for a bishop sacrifice on h7 to be successful. You may find the german version (titeled Der Rochadeangriff still at specialiced german chess-book sellers. (Please note: the collection attack.zip is incomplete!)

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