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onlygb ♡ 32 ( +1 | -1 )
Fully Annotated PGN Game Files (for free) Does anyone know of any good, free, annotated chess games that I can run in my PGN viewer?

What I'm looking for is not just sheer volume (800 Sicilian games!!) but quality annotation. Notes on many key moves so a 1400 player like myself can read why a certain move was made.


Thanks in advance!!
wulebgr ♡ 31 ( +1 | -1 )
From time to time there are annotated games in PGN format at the Chess Informant site. These are always in CI format--just learning the CI codes can help some 1400 players improve positional understanding.

www.sahovski.com/
bonsai ♡ 34 ( +1 | -1 )
The teaching ladder page at FICS www.freechess.org/Ladder/games.html does contain games mostly played by amateurs reviewed by stronger players. The only vaguely silly thing is that one has to download them one by one.
pappagrande ♡ 39 ( +1 | -1 )
"the week in chess" website has a weekly free download in pgn and other formats. think it may have all the top/important games played in the previous week. It also has an archive section of all these weekly downloads going back about 4 years or so. p

www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html
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pappagrande ♡ 12 ( +1 | -1 )
correction Sorry just realised that you want annotations, don't know about that.
but it's worth a look anyway. p
jjw109 ♡ 28 ( +1 | -1 )
Here's another site with a few classics and other annotated games. Again though it's a one by one download, though their viewer works well.

www.logicalchess.com/resources/bestgames>/
poulovas ♡ 13 ( +1 | -1 )
This will help you a lot

www.uni-klu.ac.at/~gossimit/c/chess.htm
peppe_l ♡ 10 ( +1 | -1 )
Not PGN But from www.chesscafe.com archives you can find games annotated by Yasser Seirawan (Inside Chess).
wulebgr ♡ 12 ( +1 | -1 )
Try googling ... "PGN annotated"

you'll find a link to this thread, but also many sources of annotated games by masters and patzers