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alligator's favorite 'simple' chess games Instructive strategic games played by Morphy, Capablanca, Rubinstein, Petrosian, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen and other great masters. 34 games, 1858-2013 alligator's favorite French games Neat combo finish 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). 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. 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! 20 games, 1852-1958 Logical Chess Games useful for teaching strategy and tactics 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. 53 games, 1846-2011 The Goering Gambit An interesting collection of short games. Good for finding instructive mistakes and tactics. 74 games, 1874-2007 Winning with 1 d4! 1. d4 was a favorite of many attacking players like Alekhine, Pillsbury and Marshall. 34 games, 1869-2010