Rating: 
Summary: One of the CLASSICS of chess literature.
Review: This is easily one of the 'great classics' of chess. Together with its companion volume, (100 Master Games); it makes a tremendous research and reference tool. It is also a very good teaching book. The authors go to great pains to describe and explain a lot of the processes that occur during a game of chess. On my web page devoted to the best chess books ever written, I rate this as one of the "Ten Best Chess Books Ever Written."
(You should probably go there and read what I wrote about this book. I won't reproduce that here.) If you have ever wondered how the older Masters played the game? Then this is the book for you to get. It contains over 150 years of the best chess played during that era. Just in sheer numbers, how many books offer FIVE HUNDRED annotated games??? How could you go wrong buying and studying this book? (There is always a demand for used copies of this book!) Another question you should ask yourself: How long would it take you to (seriously) STUDY 500 MASTER games of Chess?
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