
alligator

- alligator's favorite 'simple' chess games
Instructive strategic games played by Morphy, Capablanca, Rubinstein, Petrosian, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen and other great masters.
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| 34 games, 1858-2013 - alligator's favorite French games
9 games, 1912-2012 - Artful Checkmate Patterns
Learning these checkmate patterns will immediately improve your chess results. Many of the final positions can be found in the book by Renaud and Kahn- Art of Checkmate. Other games can be found in I. Chernev's popular book- Logical Chess Move by Move (LC).
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| 76 games, 1620-2011 - Attacking with the French
11 games, 1982-2013 - Development of chess understanding
These games are chosen to highlight the history of chess understanding, beginning with a few games prior to the era of Paul Morphy. Major figures like Steinitz, Tarrasch, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Reti and Nimzovitch will be represented. Modern super GM's to include sample games of Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Tal, Petrosian, other Russian GM's, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand & Carlsen. This is a work in progress.
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| 30 games, 1620-2012 - Endgames
62 games, 1895-2013 - Great Counterattacks
25 games, 1834-2012 - Greatest Nunn GM-RAM games
These classic games are part of essential chess knowledge. Except for those denoted with an @, these are all covered in GM-RAM, and Nunn, Burgess: Greatest Games and Guess the Move. Studying these games could make you a very dangerous player!
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| 20 games, 1852-1958 - Logical Chess
Games useful for teaching strategy and tactics
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| 111 games, 1851-2011 - London system
1 game, 1889 - Scotch by Modern Players
Should the Scotch be in your opening repertoire? Gary Kasparov played the Scotch over 20 times, won over half of those and never lost a game. Several times Gary played this in important world championship matches. That kind of endorsement for an opening is as good as it gets.
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| 53 games, 1846-2011 - The Goering Gambit
An interesting collection of short games. Good for finding instructive mistakes and tactics.
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| 74 games, 1874-2007 - Winning with 1 d4!
1. d4 was a favorite of many attacking players like Alekhine, Pillsbury and Marshall.
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| 34 games, 1869-2010
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