Book recommendation

New York 1924 Tournament Book by Hermann Helms, Annotations by Alexander Alekhine

My highest recommendation. This tournament was replete with classic games that made chess history and are still worthy of study. This was some incredible competitive chess; only 38 of the 110 games were draws, and most of those were incredibly hard-fought.

Emmanuel Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Marshall, Reti, Maroczy, Bogoljubow, Tartakower, Yates, Edward Lasker, Janowksi. The world champion, the former and future champions, and three challengers for the crown.

Listing the great games in this tournament requires listing almost all the games...
3rd round: Tartakower - Yates
3rd round: Alekhine - Em. Lasker
4th round: Janowski - Em. Lasker
5th round: Reti - Capablanca (Capa's first loss in 8 years)
6th round: Capablanca - Tartakower (great endgame, Capa's first win in the tourney)
6th round: Em. Lasker - Ed. Lasker (fascinating endgame, ended in a draw after 103 moves)
6th round: Alekhine - Janowski
7th round: Capablanca - Yates
8th round: Alekhine - Reti
9th round: Bogoljubow - Capablanca
9th round: Marshall - Em. Lasker
10th round: Em. Lasker - Reti
12th round: Reti - Bogoljubow (first brilliancy prize)
12th round: Em. Lasker - Janowski
13th round: Reti - Alekhine
13th round: Maroczy - Capablanca
13th round: Em. Lasker - Bogoljubow
14th round: Capablanca - Em. Lasker (third brilliancy prize)
15th round: Bogoljubow - Tartakower
15th round: Capablanca - Janowski
16th round: Reti - Em. Lasker (one of the first games I ever analyzed in detail, still one of the best)
18th round: Marshall - Bogoljubow (second brilliancy prize)
19th round: Tartakower - Capablanca
21st round: Tartakower - Em. Lasker
22nd round: Em. Lasker - Marshall

The annotations by Alekhine are top-notch. Some of the opening analysis is dated of course, but otherwise these are still some of the most insightful positions that exist in the game of chess and Alekhine's analysis still repays careful study.