Publisher: Chess Informant, 2009 Edition: Paperback medium Pages: 326 Language: English
Every volume of Chess Informant offers a selection of the best games played by the world's greatest chess players. Over 90% of the games are annotated by the players who played them.
The classification code system facilitates the search by openings and variations, and the system of annotation signs and symbols is perfectly understandable to everyone.
There are also the most interesting endings, combinations, studies, the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from the previous volume, tournament crosstables and thorough indexes of players and annotators.
Chess Informant 103 brings a thoroughly refined selection of 918 annotated games (407 full games and 511 game fragments) from May - August 2008.
Featured are games from La Habana, Sofia, Sarajevo, Bazna, Foros, Dortmund, Poikovsky, Biel, Paks, Sochi, Maniz - rapid, Warszawa, London, Moscow, Amsterdam, Montreal. As usual, the contributors are the world’s best players.
This volume also brings: -- the voting for the ten best games from Chess Informant 103 -- the voting for ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 102, -- a theoretical survey in ECO format, -- the most interesting combinations and endings from recent tournament practice -- studies, tournament standings and crosstables -- and the best output of Peter Svidler.
If you are a serious chess player, you can't afford to miss Chess Informant!