In the pre-computer days, the most common way to improve at chess was to study games played by stronger players. So entrenched was this method that most "How to Play Chess" books included a collection of master games, usually with very light annotations.
One example was from the Meises update to RF Green's "Chess". It included 33 games, including the following early example, from 1834. Given the lack of notes (or analysis) for the game, I suspect the expectation was that the reader would play through the game, and basically improve by self realisation. While this may sound unrealistic today, it was a method that seemed to work.
Match Labourdonnais-McDonnell(3) +6-5=1 London (5), 1834
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4 exd4 5. exd4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. h3 Nbd7 9. Be3 Nb6 10. Bb3 c6 11. O-O Nfd5 12. Qe2 f5 13. Ne5 f4 14. Bd2 g5 15. Rae1 Kg7 16. Nxd5 Nxd5 17. Nxc6 bxc6 18. Bxd5 Qxd5 19. Qxe7+ Rf7 20. Qb4 Bf5 21. Re5 Qd7 22. d5 cxd5 23. Qd4 Kh6 24. h4 Be6 25. Rfe1 Re8 26. Rxg5 Ref8 27. Qe5 Bg4 28. Rh5+ Bxh5 29. Qg5# 1-0
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