The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g. My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 games covering a certain period of time (e.g. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games. Vol.1 1485-1866 by Levy and O'Connell), opening

Chess opening

A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game. Recognized sequences of opening moves are referred to as openings as initiated by White or defenses, as created in reply by Black. There are many dozens of different openings, and hundreds of named variants. The Oxford Companion to...

 move collections, or collections centered on tactical or strategic themes (e.g. games featuring brilliant defense, attacking play, endgame technique, and so on).

Chess Informant

Chess Informant

Chess Informant is a publishing company from Belgrade that periodically produces a book of the same name, as well as the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings, Opening Monographs, other print publications, and software Chess Informant (Šahovski Informator) is a...

is a series which collects chess games annotated by top players and publishes them in a language independent format.

External links

• Chess Game Collection - Over 500,000 chess games in pgn format All games with ECO B-E are broken links. A00-A99 work.
• http://www.chessgames.com - Over 426,000 chess games.
• http://www.ficsgames.com - Free searchable database with over 100,000,000 chess games which are played and relayed on the Free Internet Chess Server
  Free Internet Chess Server
  The Free Internet Chess Server is a volunteer-run Internet chess server. It was organised as a free alternative to the Internet Chess Club , after that site began charging for membership.-History:...
  
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• http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/ - University of Pittsburgh Chess Archives
• http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twicp.html - The Week in Chess
  The Week in Chess
  The Week in Chess is one of the first, if not the first, Internet-based chess news services.TWIC has been edited by Mark Crowther since its inception in 1994. It began as a weekly Usenet posting, with "TWIC 1" being posted to Usenet group rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994...
  
  {weekly posts with games from tournaments around the world}
• http://www.latestchess.com/archiveGames.php - Archived games from chess tournaments.
• http://www.chesslive.de - a searchable online chess database, run by http://www.chessbase.com
• http://www.ficgs.com/directory_databases.html - correspondence chess games and games from famous chess champions
• http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html - Over 500,000 games listed by Grandmaster, downloadable in PGN format
• http://www.wildchess.org - Free searchable chess database and opening explorer.
• http://www.chess.com/games - Searchable online database of more than 2 million games with opening explorer.