I do enjoy going through masters games but I also learn a lot from going through games of players around my rating range, especially higher by 300-500 points. Learn patterns and ideas I might see in my games and the mistakes people make around the range. It is an amazing resource that chess has available which is the games of masters at our fingertips to go through them for free or very little cost.
Born mid-70s you are old enough to remember historical artifacts called "newspapers" which (pre-Sudoko and Wordle) had chess and bridge columns... in my first month of online chess last year I played more games than I had played previously in my entire life.
Yes, I actually remember reports in The Observer about the Kasparov-Karpov matches. It's a regret that the Kasparov-Short match, which was covered live on TV in the UK, came before I really got into chess. I did watch coverage at the time, but couldn't properly appreciate it.
From E Rosen I picked up the castled king as moved his H pawn and has queen on g3 you can grab it using the pin, & Danya as black saw white queen on f3 and long castle and pinned Q to R. Basic pin motiffs but u c it once and dont forget and it applies to more advanced ideas like white B to A6 alllowing B6 capture by B7.
Yes! I just started doing this. Some Magnus, some Bobby Fischer playing Queens pawn opening trying to understand how & why they dominated other GM's. Thank you.
