Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal' Game to Kramnik Versus Kasparov 2000

This review pertains specifically to the first edition. I do not have the second edition and probably will not buy it because I will probably never finish learning everything that I can from the first! I really like the book and have learned much so far. The selection of games is very good and that analysis is good. Based upon some of the other reviews here, it may not be perfect analysis, but it is very good. At first I thought... Read Full Review

THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHESS GAMES. Edited by Graham Burgess, John Nunn, and John Emms. Foreword by Vishy Anand. 560 pages. Mammoth Book Series. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-7867-0587-6 (pbk).Although 'One Hundred of The World's Greatest Chess Games' might have been a more appropriate title - since everyone is going to quibble about the editors' selections, and, as others have pointed out,... Read Full Review

Even though I already own a few "great chess games" books, I feel this is an awesome addition to my library. This is a book that not only entertains but educates. I enjoyed the verbal explanations of plans, move orders, and thematic summaries of "lessons learned." I felt confident that the authors had not simply rewritten previous annotators' analysis' but checked detailed move variations for tactical flaws (with computer... Read Full Review

I am very impressed by the quality of the annotations throughout. I am a Grade A player and likes to use a computer database to go through master games. So often the older books fail to give horribly obvious (once pointed out!!) tactical shots. This book is computer-proof. All the conclusions are well supported and I feel secure with it! A rigorous piece of chessic scholarship. And it is cheap - pity the quality of the... Read Full Review

This is the "games collection" that I have been waiting years to find! It is a book of 100 chronologically-ordered, heavily annotated chess games, which the three authors decided upon through some sort of weighted voting system, in which Graham Burgess annotated 50, John Nunn 25, and John Emms 25. It is not a "mammoth"-sized book; it is about the size of a typical bestseller paperback, though somewhat wider. To give... Read Full Review