Classic Games Books and Resources

Ok someone advised me to improve I need to look at more classics. So can someone give some best books and resources from where I could start?

Play longer games and analyse your own game using machine; Check all inaccuracies, mistakes & blunders then you will get better idea!,and to add on that you should start by studying the games of lower rated players first. You're not going to understand the moves GM's make. Find games of class players, and get used to seeing, and understanding the blunders they make. I think you can learn a lot a 1500 studying the games of 1900 would definitely learn some interesting new things and yet at the same time the game will be relevant to him(i.e. he can understand the game). The idea is to study something that is similar but slightly better to facilitate incremental learning. After you've done all that then you can get Del Rosario's A First Book of Morphy, Chernev's Logical Chess Move by Move and The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played where most of the moves are annotated would be useful too.Also worth considering are similar books where many moves are explained such as Euwe's Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur and Heisman's The World's Most Instructive Amateur Game Book as the authors go into the typical thinking and mistakes made by amateur players. All the above books are on my to-study list after i have finished studying games of lower rated players

ChessNetwork analyses 40 classic games in this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL45300E324BE31AC4

Chess Coach Andras analyses classic games, and looks at their structural characteristics in a series titled "Know thy classics". But he hasn't made a playlist from them. You'll have to search for them on his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCcYZTGsTO5TbCaA1O0wcBzw/videos

You could go to chessgames.com and look up past world champions and super grandmasters, download the .pgn for games by them, and import it into a Lichess study. Here's some studies some weirdo created earlier, to give you an idea of how this can work (though for some of these I was working from books of old games collections instead of chessgames.com):
(One game in here also covered by IM Andras Toth)


If you do this try to work out what is going on by yourself, before checking it with stockfish.

I can highly recommend the three books gbtambi mentions above. Also David Bronstein's "200 Open Games", though he provides very little analysis.

The best intro to strategic thinking I've come across is Michael Stean's "Simple Chess" This could be followed by Kotov's "Think like a Grandmaster, which looks at the art of chess analysis, or by Aron Nimzowitsch's "My System".

Mikhail Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy is remarkable, but it would probably pay to look at an introductory endgame book first. I used books by Averbakh, and also Paul Keres' "Practical Chess Endings", but they are probably out of date now.

Hope this helps.

Thank you everyone for your replies :)

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Some of the old books are really good:
Nimzowitsch: "My System" and "the praxis of my system"
"New York 1924"
"Zürich 1953"
Euwe: "Master vs Amateur"