Annotated Games

MASTER ANNOTATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

Games annotated by the players themselves, taken from public-domain books. Step through each game on the board with the original notes beside the moves.

Alexander Alekhine, Hastings International Masters’ Chess Tournament 1922 (1923)
30 ANNOTATED GAMES
Alexander Alekhine, My Best Games of Chess 1908–1923 (1927)
100 ANNOTATED GAMES
Aron Nimzowitsch, My System (1930)
71 ANNOTATED GAMES
David A. Mitchell, Mitchell’s Guide to the Game of Chess (1920)
21 ANNOTATED GAMES
Edward Lasker, Chess Strategy (1921)
54 ANNOTATED GAMES
Edward Lasker, Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership (1918)
3 ANNOTATED GAMES
Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess (1896)
16 ANNOTATED GAMES
Emanuel Lasker, Manual of Chess (1927)
50 ANNOTATED GAMES
Emanuel Lasker, The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909 (1910)
175 ANNOTATED GAMES
Fr. Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play (1656)
94 ANNOTATED GAMES
Frank J. Marshall and J. C. H. Macbeth, Chess Step by Step (1924)
26 ANNOTATED GAMES
Frank J. Marshall, Chess Openings (1904)
32 ANNOTATED GAMES
Frank J. Marshall, Marshall’s Chess “Swindles” (1914)
133 ANNOTATED GAMES
François-André Danican Philidor, Analysis of the Game of Chess (1790)
18 ANNOTATED GAMES
Gioachino Greco, Chess Made Easy (1750)
58 ANNOTATED GAMES
Henry Edward Bird, Chess History and Reminiscences (1893)
10 ANNOTATED GAMES
Henry Edward Bird, Chess Masterpieces (1875)
157 ANNOTATED GAMES
Henry Edward Bird, Chess Novelties (1895)
90 ANNOTATED GAMES
Henry Edward Bird, The Chess Openings (1880)
24 ANNOTATED GAMES
Horace F. Cheshire, The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895 (1896)
232 ANNOTATED GAMES
Howard Staunton, Chess Praxis (1860)
357 ANNOTATED GAMES
Howard Staunton, Chess: Theory and Practice (1876)
92 ANNOTATED GAMES
Howard Staunton, The Chess Tournament (1852)
184 ANNOTATED GAMES
Howard Staunton, The Chess-Player’s Companion (1849)
265 ANNOTATED GAMES
Howard Staunton, The Chess-Player’s Handbook (1847)
114 ANNOTATED GAMES
Howard Staunton, The Chess-Player’s Text Book (1849)
2 ANNOTATED GAMES
J. G. Cunningham, The Games in the Steinitz-Lasker Championship Match (1894)
19 ANNOTATED GAMES
J. H. Blackburne, Mr. Blackburne’s Games at Chess (1899)
361 ANNOTATED GAMES
J. Löwenthal, Morphy's Games of Chess (1860)
204 ANNOTATED GAMES
John Cochrane, A Treatise on the Game of Chess (1822)
71 ANNOTATED GAMES
José Raúl Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals (1921)
19 ANNOTATED GAMES
José Raúl Capablanca, My Chess Career (1920)
35 ANNOTATED GAMES
Louis Hoffmann, The Games of Greco (1900)
79 ANNOTATED GAMES
Oldřich Duras, The Rice Gambit: Supplement to the Fifth Edition (1914)
1 ANNOTATED GAME
Philip W. Sergeant, Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916)
302 ANNOTATED GAMES
William Lewis, Gioachino Greco on the Game of Chess (1819)
47 ANNOTATED GAMES
William Steinitz, Chess Match Between Messrs. Steinitz & Blackburne (1876)
7 ANNOTATED GAMES
William Steinitz, The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress (1891)
430 ANNOTATED GAMES
William Steinitz, The Modern Chess Instructor (1889)
83 ANNOTATED GAMES