Download General Games Collection of Famous Chess Books for Free

These game collection are of famous chess books in general category. Download games collection from pgn/cbv format for free.

Author, Title, Publisher, Year, Compiler, Format
Abrahams, Not Only Chess, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1974, ISBN 0 04 794005 0, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Chernev, Logical Chess: move by move, Batsford, 1998, Carlo Mazzoni, cbv pgn
Euwe & Meiden, Chess Master and Grandmaster, George Allen & Unwin, 1978, ISBN: 0 04 794007 7, Ulo Suviste cbv pgn
Euwe & Meiden, The Road to Chess Mastery, McKay, 1966, Timothy Randall cbv pgn
Fine, The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, Random House, 1990, Tapio Huuhka, cbv pgn
Gillam, Your First Chess Games, Batsford, 1993, Pat Craig, cbv pgn
Hall & Smith, Chess Instructions - Move by Move, Chess Digest, 1984, ISBN: 0-87568-156-5, William Simpson cbv pgn
Heyken, Beginner's Chess Course, Sterling Publishing, 1997, ISBN: 0-7607-4573-0, Ekkehard Rohwedder cbv pgn
Horowitz & Reinfeld:
   1. First Book of Chess, Harper & Row, NY, 1952
   2. Second Book of Chess: The Nine Bad Moves, and How to Avoid Them, Sterling, NY, 1953
   3. Third Book of Chess: How to Play the White Pieces, Sterling, NY, 1954
   4. Fourth Book of Chess: How to Play the Black Pieces, Sterling, NY, 1955
   5. Fifth Book of Chess: How to Win When You're Ahead, Sterling, NY, 1955 / Josep Banús cbv pgn
Keene & Whiteley, Ray Keene's Good Move Guide, Oxford University Press, 1982, Jim Johnston cbv pgn
Keene Raymond-Jacobs-Byron, An Opening Repertoire for White (New Edition), Henry Holt, 1995, Ryan Neal, cbv pgn
Kmoch, I pedoni: Anima degli scacchi / Pawn Power in Chess / die Kunst der Lombardy, Modern Chess Opening Traps, McKay Company, Inc., 1972, Miguel Garcia, cbv pgn
Mednis, Spiele gute Eröffnungszüge!, Die elementaren Kenntnisse in einem Übungsbuch (Praxis Schach; Bd.6), (How To Play Good Opening Moves), Edition Olms, 1998, Patrick Holming, cbv pgn
Padulli, Gli Scacchi, Mursia, 1972, Angelo Orlando, cbv pgn
Pandolfini, Chess openings: Traps and zaps 2, Fireside Chess Library, 1993, Miguel Garcia, cbv pgn
Reti, Modern Ideas in Chess, Dover, Gary Carlson, cbv pgn
Short, Chess Basics, Sterling, 1st Ed., 1994, ISBN: 0-8069-0798-3, Sumeet Kishnani cbv pgn
Suetin, Schach Training, Ullstein, 1991, ISBN: 3-548-34847-5, Frank Altenburg cbv pgn
Timman, Chess the Adventurous Way, Bert Bakker, 1983, Wybe Koopmans, cbv pgn

Free Collection of Chess Games from Famous Books

This is my first list of chess games collection from famous books written in english. Games are both in pgn format as well as in cbv format. Click to download whichever you like.

Author, Title, Publisher, Year, Compiler, Format

Assaic, The Pleasures of Chess, Dover Publications, 1960, ISBN 0-486-20597-5, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Barden & Heidenfeld, Modern Chess Miniatures, Dover Publications, 1977, ISBN: 0-486-23541-6, TeckSoon Tan cbv pgn
Beheim, Chess with the Masters, Arco, 1974, ISBN: 0-668-01041-6, Bean Bucks, cbv pgn
Botvinnik, Championship Chess-Soviet Chess Championship 1941, Dover, 1947, Mark Hannon cbv pgn
Bronstein, 200 Open Games, Dover, 1992, Miguel Angelo Hemzo, cbv pgn
Bronstein, Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953, Dover, 1979, Michael Lipsey, cbv pgn
Byrne, The New York Times Great Chess Victories and Defeats (Le Grandi Sfide Scacchistiche - Arnoldo Mondadori Editore), Times Books; Random House, 1990, ISBN 971-085683-9, Eric Hughes Santiago cbv pgn
Chernev, The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess, Simon & Schuster, 1955, Library of Congress number 55-5949, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Chernev, The Chess Companion, Simon & Schuster, 1968, ISBN 671-2165-1, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Chernev, Wonders and Curiosities of Chess, Dover Publications, 1974, ISBN 0-486-23007-4, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Chernev & Reinfeld, The Fireside Book of Chess, Simon and Schuster, 1949, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Collins, My Seven Chess Prodigies, Simon and Schuster, 1974, ISBN 0-671-21941-3, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Dumont, Chess: More Miniature Games, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1953, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Duz-Hotimirski F.I., Izbrannye partii (The Best Games), Fizkultura i sport, 1953, Victor Minaev, cbv pgn
Eade, Chess for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, 1996, Joe Johnson cbv pgn
Evans, Evans on Chess, Cornerstone Library, 1974, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Fine, The World's Great Chess Games, Crown Publishers, Inc (Bonanza Books), 1951, Owen Curtis cbv pgn
Fiske & Morphy, The Chess Monthly, Volume 1, 1857, Moravian Chess, 2000, ISBN 80-7189-269-6, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Foldeak, Chess Olympiads 1927-1968, Dover, 1979, ISBN 0-486-23733-8, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Fox - James, Even more complete chess addict, Faber & Faber, Inc, 1994, Miguel Garcia, cbv pgn
Gelo, Chess World Championships - All the Games, 1834-1984, McFarland & Company, 1988, Franco Pezzi, cbv pgn
Gligorich, Selected Chess Masterpieces, David McKay Co., 1970, Neil Sullivan cbv pgn
Harding, Winning at Correspondence Chess, Henry Holt and Company, 1994, Johnny Penrose cbv pgn
Harding, Startling Correspondence Chess Miniatures, Chess Mail Ltd, 2000, Ralph Kalenian, cbv pgn
Hartston, Teach Yourself Better Chess, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, Jon Hutchings cbv pgn
Hartston, The guinness book of chess grandmasters , Guinness, 1996, Frontenac, cbv pgn
Hartson and Keene, Karpov - Korchnoi 1974, Oxford University Press, 1974, Baldvin Gislason, cbv pgn
Hebert, Border Wars III, Chess Enterprises, 1984, ISBN 931462-37-1, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Heidenfeld, Draw!, George Allen & Unwin, 1982, Tangen Lennart, cbv pgn
Helms, The Book of the New York International Chess Tournament 1924, Dover, 1961, Randall Julian, cbv pgn
Hooper & Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, Oxford University Press, 1984 1992, Frontenac, cbv pgn
Horovitz, I Campioni del Mondo di Scacchi - The World Chess Championship, Mursia, 1988, Pier, cbv pgn
Horowitz, Games to Remember, David McKay Company, 1972, Drayton Harrison, cbv pgn
Horowitz, The Golden Treasury of Chess, Galahad Books, 1969, Jacinto Tan cbv pgn
Keene, Duels of the Mind, Collier Books, 1991, Swami Singh, cbv pgn
Keene, Learn from the Grandmasters, Batsford, 1998, Locksley Young, cbv pgn
Karklins, Modern Grandmaster Chess (As Exemplified in the 1964 USSR Zonal Tournament), Chicago Chess Books, 1974, Marc Adlam cbv pgn
Karpov, 50 World's Champion Miniatures, Moscow, Fizkultura i sport, 1986, Ivan Ivanov cbv pgn
Karpov, Miniatures from the World Champions, Collier Books, 1985, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Kiprov, The Famous Chess Players, Medicina i fizkultura Sofia, 1962, Ivan Ivanov, cbv pgn
Kolesnikov, Checkmate in Ukaraine, ??, 1996, Laurent Tinture, cbv pgn
Koltanowski, Chessnicdotes , Chess Enterprises, 1978, ISBN 0-931462-01-0, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Koltanowski, Chessnicdotes 2, Chess Enterprises, 1981, ISBN 0-931462-11-8, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Koltanowski, T.V. Chess, KQED, 1968, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Konig, Chess From Morphy to Botvinnik, Bell Publishing Company, 1950, Charles Fenner, cbv pgn
Kotov-Yudovich, The Soviet School of Chess, Dover, 1961, Ivo Fasiori, cbv pgn
Lauterbach, XIX Kongress DSB - Mannheim 1914, Miguel A. Hemzo, cbv pgn
le Lionnais, Brilliancy Prize on Chess, Bruguera Ajedrez, 1972, Juan Carlos Sanz, cbv pgn
Linder, Aesthetics in Chess, Sovetskaja Rossia, 1981, Ivan Ivanov, cbv pgn
Lombardy & Daniels, Chess Panorama, Chilton Book Company, 1975, ISBN 0-8019-6078-9, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Marfia, 1982 US Open - St Paul, Chess Enterprises, 1982, ISBN 0-931462-21-5, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Marfia, 1984 US Open: Fort Worth, Chess Enterprises, 1985, ISBN 931462-40-1, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Maroczy - The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1922, Dover, 1968, Tom Pierce cbv pgn
Matsukevich, Microchess - 555 openings blunders, Moscow, Astrel-AST, 2002, Ivan Ivanov cbv pgn
Napier, Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess, David McKay Company, 1957, ISBN 0-679-14027-1, Bill Wall cbv pgn
Pandolfini, Kasparov and Deep Blue, Fireside Simon & Schuster, 1997, John Short, cbv pgn
Reinfeld, Chess Masters on Winning Chess, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1974, Gary Houlahan cbv pgn
Reinfeld, World Greatest Chess Games, (no additional informations), N.E Popov cbv pgn
Reinfeld, Great short games of the chess masters, collier macmillan publishers, 1973, Davide Orsenigo cbv pgn
Reshevsky, How Chess Games Are Won, Pitman, 1962, Marek Soszynski, cbv pgn
Roizman, 300 miniaturas, Martinez Roca, 1990, Esteve Ribalta, cbv pgn
Roizman, Chess miniatures - 400 combination games, Polimja, Minsk, 1978, Ivan Ivanov cbv pgn
Roizman, 444 Srajennykh Korolia (444 games on attack on the king), Minsk Polymia, 1987, Frontenac, cbv pgn
Soltis, The 100 Best Chess Games of The 20th Century, McFarland & Co, 2000, Ivan Josifov, cbv pgn
Suetin, The Great Soviet Players, Minsk, Polimya, 1984, Ivan Ivanov cbv pgn
Tartakower, 500 Master Games of Chess, Bell & Sons, 1952, Gary Huang, cbv pgn
Tartakover & Du Mont, 100 Master Games of Modern Chess, Bell & Sons, 1954, Juan Carlos Sanz, cbv pgn
Turov, Pearls of chess, 3rd ed, Fizkultura i sport, 1991, Ivan Ivanov, cbv pgn
Wade, Sousse 1967 Interzonal Chess Tournament, The Chess Player, 1968, Philip Dodderidge cbv pgn
Wade & Blackstock, Palma de Mallorca 1970 - Interzonal Chess Tournament, The Chess Player 1970, Scott Isaacman cbv pgn
Wall, The 1990 World Chess Championship, Chess Enterprises, 1991, Bill Wall, cbv pgn

The Queen's Gambit Declined : Semi-Slav

The Semi-Slav Defense Variation of Queen’s Gambit resembles a mixture of the Orthodox Queen’s Gambit Declined and the Slav Defense.



Encyclopaedia of Chess Opening has assigned codes D43 through D49 to Semi – Slav.
You can practice the opening here.

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Queen's Gambit Declined: Three Knights Variation (D37)

In Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD) Black rejects a pawn sacrifice offered by White. Black achieves a solid position in the center. This opening has the reputation of Black’s most reliable defense to 1 d4.

In Queen's Gambit Declined, White tries to exploit the passivity of Black’s light-squared bishop and Black will try to activate the bishop, exchange it or will use it for defensive purpose.

Click here to practice the opening.

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Four Knights Game (C46)

Four Knights opening is popular among the beginners who strictly adhere to the opening principle, "Develop Knights before Bishops." This opening was quite popular till world war I on higher level play. But it was abondoned in favor Ruy Lopez. During the last decay of the 20th century, it again rise to popularity among chess players.

Usually the four Knights leads to quite positional play but there are variations where fireworks is common.
For practice of this opening click here.
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Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Italian Four Knights Variation (C50)

Italian game was first developed in the 16the century and is most oldest of chess opening. Throughout the 19th century it was popular but later on it is supplanted by the Ruy Lopez. Italian Game with Giuoco Pianissimo Four Knights Variation (C50) often leads to aggressive open positions.

Practice this opening here.
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Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense (C78)

Ruy Lopez is one of oldest and popular opening. It is also called Spanish Game after a spanish priest who wrote a book about this opening. Ruy Lopez has remained a favorite opening of world champion, Gary Kasparov and Boby Fischer.
There are several variations of Ruy Lopez, among which Morphy Defense is most popular among black’s responses.

You can practice Ruy Lopez – Morphy Defense (C78) here.
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My Favorite Chess Website for Free Online Play

Chess.com is my favorite website for online play. Chess.com offers the opportunity to Play and learn the chess game with your friends and other 5 million members worldwide! This website provides chess videos, tactics training, and opening explorer to help improve your game. If you are interested in online chess experience, I would recommend you to Chess.com.

I would love to hear your feedback about Chess.com.

6 Free Chess Softwares for Windows PC

If you are a newbie or on a tight budget, I recommend the use of freeware chess programs to enjoy the immortal game of chess. Kindly, note I have not included any demo or limited version of chess programs, even if they are free.

Here is my list of chess softwares for PC:

1) Arena: Interface of the software was designed for use with chess engines compatible with Winboard and Universal Chess Interface (UCI) protocols. Chess engines are easy to be set up in the Arena as compared to Winboard. Click here to download Arena.

2) Jester: Although, Jester does not have bells of whistles of a commercial softwares, it offers a reasonable play of chess. It has an attractive user interface. Jester can be downloaded from here.

3) Xboard and WinBoard: Xboard and Winboard are graphical user interfaces for chess engines. In other words to play chess on these softwares you need a chess engine like GNU. Download link is here.

4) GNU Chess: GNU Chess is one of the oldest freeware chess game available. You can download Windows version here.

5) Crafty: Robert Hyatt has written this chess program. Crafty can be downloaded from this link.

6) Arasan Chess: Arasan is a freeware chess software. It has Windows GUI and can also acts as a chess engine that works well with Arena or other Winboard GUI softwares. Another plus point of this software is its huge opening book of about 75,000 moves! Click here to download the software.

If you know of any good free chess playing software not included in this list, please do let me know. I plan to keep this list updated regularly.

Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Knight Attack Normal Variation (C57)

Two Knights defense was first recorded by Polerio in the late 16th century. This particular sequence of moves were adopted by many aggressive player like Mikhail Chigorin and Paul Keres, and World Champions Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky.

To practice this opening click here.
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Queen's Gambit Accepted (D20)

The Queen's Gambit Accepted is among the popular second move of the black. Here white will make an endeavor to take advantage of the space while black will defend the position and aim for the queenside counterplay.

 

Click here to practice this opening.

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Why Novice Corner Blog?

During my childhood, I really had a longing for chess. I used to play chess with my friends, occasionally. But then ordinary living got in the way, and I lead the life without the game of chess.

But now for reasons of mental health, I have once again taken up chess. This time I want to seriously pursue chess. I have purchased the Chessmaster Grand Master Edition and some nice collection of chess books. I am planning to play chess against chessmaster and online on chess.com.

I will post about my chess adventures in this blog along with the latest news update. I hope this blog will also be helpful for other chess novice players that want to upgrade their chess play.
I would appreciate if you share your suggestions for the improvement of this blog in the comments.