ICC Help: Hist-libs

Libraries of historical chess events, specialized libraries of the
greatest chessplayers and games from the best chess books!
Thanks to the volunteers who created those libraries so you can
play over all those games. help libraries has info on how
libraries work. For information about a particular library,
do "finger <name>" like in finger RWE2001.

Do "liblist <name>" to see the list of games in the library.
Do "finger <name>" to see some info about the games or a crosstable.
Do "examine <name> %5" to examine game 5 in one of the libraries.
Do "mailstore <name> %5" to email game 5 to yourself.

Please note that library game numbers have a % (percent) sign in front.

  ** Player's libraries **

Bronstein1 through   Games from the life of Bronstein. (Scheherazade, Zek)
Bronstein4        
Deep-Blue         14 games against Kasparov, Deep Blue and Deep Thought
Fischer57-71      Famous Fischer games from his prime!  Nice notes too (anon)
Gufeld-Library    Games by GM Eduard Gufeld  (AlgebraGenius )
IgorIvanov0 through  GM Igor Ivanov (Shawn)
IgorIvanov8
Lasker1889-1893   Games by Emanuel Lasker
Lasker1893-1899      not including World Championship Matches
Lasker1899-1916      (Lasker27y)
Lasker1916-1936
Lasker1936-1936

Selected games by great players, uploaded by adam16mr, blackhorse and schroeder

AlexAlekhine1 and AlexAlekhine2
Anand1 through Anand4
UlfAndersson1 and UlfAndersson2
Bogoljubov MBotvinnik
JCapablanca1 and JCapablanca2
Chigorin and ReubenFine
Hodgson1 and Hodgson2
AKarpov1 and AKarpov2
GKasparov1 through GKasparov5
PKeres1 through PKeres4
Kortchnoi1 and Kortchnoi2
Kramnik1 through Kramnik4
BentLarsen FrMarshall
TonyMiles1 and TonyMiles2
Morphy Najdorf
Nezhmetdinov1 Nezhmetdinov2 Nezhmetdinov3
Petrosian Pillsbury RPonomariov1
SammyReshevsky
Shirov1 through Shirov12
NShort1 and NShort2
VSmyslov BorisSpassky
WilhelmSteinitz
MTal1 and MTal2
Tarrasch

  ** Historical events and games **

AVRO38            Games from the famous AVRO Tournament in 1938 (CDavis)
BDG-1, BDG-2      Blackmar-Diemer gambit games (cranken)
Benasque1993      1993 benasque Open, uploaded by WarHawk
Classic-Games1    Classic games before 1900 (cranken)
Classic-Games2    Classic games 1900-1914 (cranken)
Classic-Games3    Classic games 1914-1939 (cranken)
Classic-Games4    Classic games 1940-1972 (cranken)
Classic-Games5    Classic games 1972-present (cranken)
Classic-Games6    Classic chess "oddities" (cranken)
Dallas57          Dallas 1957 by yhprom
Dortmund96-1      Dortmund
Dortmund96-2
Fisch-Spass92     Fischer-Spassky rematch in 1992 (jmedic)
FischerUSChamp    Bobby Fischer's games from US Championships (MysteryMan777)
GreatShorts       Famous and exciting short games from chess history (anon)
Hastings1895-1    Hastings 1895
Linares1991       Linares 1991
London1834        de la Bourdonnais - McDonnell, six matches in London England
Najdorf-simul     Najdorf 45 board blindfold simul 1947 (Jorge-Sabas)
NewYork24         The 40 best games of the New York 1924 Tourney (Verlager)
Palma1970         1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal Tournament  (adam16mr)
Palma1970-1
Palma1970-2
ShormanLecture    Games for audio lectures by Richard Shorman
US-ChampLive      1995 US Championship, won by GM Wolff (Tassilolasa)
US2               more games from 1995 US Championship  (Tassilolasa)
USSR-World1970    USSR against the rest of the world  Belgrade, Yugoslavia
USSR-World1984    USSR against the rest of the world  London, England
WQC               Slashing games ending in less than 20 moves (Nemisis)
Zurich53          Tournament to determine the challenger for WC Botvinnik

  ** Games from famous books and movies **

AkibaRubinstein   100 games from Hans Kmoch's book
                 "Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games"
                         library by autobot
ArtPosChess       "The Art of Positional Play" by Samuel Reshevsky.
                         library by autobot
Greatest100       Games from the book "The World's Greatest Chess Games"
Greatest100b         by GM Nunn, GM Emms and Graham Burgess
HAL9000           Game from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"
MyGreatPred-1a    "My Great Predecessors Part 1" by Garry Kasparov.
MyGreatPred-1b      library by autobot
MyGreatPred-2a    "My Great Predecessors Part 2" by Garry Kasparov.
MyGreatPred-2b      library by autobot
MyGreatPred-3     "My Great Predecessors Part 3" by Garry Kasparov.
                    library by autobot
MyGreatPred-4a    "My Great Predecessors Part 4" by Garry Kasparov.
MyGreatPred-4b      library by autobot
mysystem          Games from the book "My System" by Aaron Nimzovich (capa1)

The following files contain even more library names:
help cool-libs           Current events
help 1997-libs           Major events 1997.
help 1998-libs           Major events 1998.
help 1999-libs           Major events 1999.
help 2000-libs           Major events 2000.
help 2001-libs           Major events 2001.
help 2002-libs           Major events 2002.
help 2003-libs           Major events 2003.
help 2004-libs           Major events 2004.
help 2005-libs           Major events 2005.
help WC-libs             All world championships.

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