These are the 125 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and illustrated with over 1,000 chess diagrams. You can join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. You can learn how to attack, keep the initiative, and defend and counterattack. You can learn about logical opening play, endgame strategy, psychological warfare, and how the great players think.