Good master games for learning how to win from a superior position I have recently managed to build up my opening repertoire to something that will no longer cause me to fall into lost positions against decent players, so I can no longer blame my losses upon bad opening preparation. 

I still need to improve in order to get to a level that I'm content with, and after doing some soul-searching, I am convinced that I still have one glaring weakness in my games that needs some serious work: I am bad at converting a positional advantage into a win!

I haven't learned how to think efficiently, and what to look for when I'm given a good position. I still think way too much in terms of concrete variations, and I have a hard time forming coherent long-term plans to improve my positions.

Therefore I am planning to start studying classical games from past masters, where they convert an edge into a clearly winning position with confidence and clarity. The masters I have in mind are first-and-foremost:


Rubinstein
Lasker
Capablanca
Botvinnik


Others, like Karpov or Kramnik (or any other great technical player, for that matter), are also interesting.

But there is one big problem: These players have all won a huge number of games, and obviously it will not be possible for me to go through them all.
I want to study their good technical victories, not some random game that they won based on obvious blunders from their opponents, or where they just won by launching an early attack and crashing through before the opponent knew what happened.

What I'm looking for is a list of famous games to study from the players mentioned above, so I have somewhere to start.
Rather than recommend a series of games, I am going to recommend the book Excelling at Technical Chess: Learn to Identify and Exploit Small Advantages by Jacob Aagaard.

Here is the blurb (emphasis is mine):


  In this book Jacob Aagaard studies the valuable skill of chess technique. He arms the reader with several endgame weapons that every strong technical player has in his toolbox. These include important skills such as schematic thinking, domination, preventing counterplay, building fortresses and utilizing zugzwang. These tools are illustrated in deeply analyzed games containing numerous different themes. A serious study of this book will ensure that the reader no longer need fear the word "technique"!