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	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. Electronic edition available now. Printed book & CD available in the second half of December 2006.

Chess Informant 97 contains 431 annotated games and 469 variations.
More information about this particular edition is shown in the tables below.

events held between	May 1st, 2006 and August 31st, 2006
events covered	Sarajevo, Sofia, Torino (ol), Foros, Taiyuan, Biel, Paks, Dortmund, Montreal, China - Russia (m), Amsterdam, etc.
contributors	V. Anand, Kramnik, Svidler, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Leko, Mi. Adams, B. Gelfand, Mamedyarov, Navara, Grischuk, R. Ponomariov, Nisipeanu, Rublevsky, Ki. Georgiev, Tiviakov, N. Short, Van Wely, A. Naiditsch, Sergey Karjakin, Kasimdzhanov, Bu Xiangzhi, Iv. Sokolov, J. Lautier, Bologan, V. Milov, L. Dominguez, M. Gurevich, Bruzon, Krasenkow, A. Volokitin, B. Avrukh, Va. Salov, M. Kobalia, P. H. Nielsen, A. Beliavsky, Alexander Moiseenko, Riazantsev, Je. Piket, Macieja, Sutovsky, T. Gelashvili, A. Galkin, Ar. Jussupow, Vescovi, Ribli, Xie Yun, Christiansen, J. Timman, J. Benjamin, Mikhalchishin, Speelman, and many others.
trademark sections	The voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 96, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting recent combinations, endings and studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Svetozar Gligoric’s creative output.

free supplement with CD

Chess Informant 96 in PGN format
(games without annotations)

The fifth thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Volume C, brings additional 104 pages of the brand new material:

1. e4 e6
1. e4 e5
Ruy Lopez, French, Petroff, King's Gambit, Two Knights', Philidor, Italian, Scotch, etc.
games and analyses from Chess Informants 1-96

The 5th edition of Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings C is made up mostly of the games, analysis and assessments of leading Grandmasters. The focus is put on games played recently and published in Chess Informant as well as other publications.

672 pages!

Yearbook 81 - $51.95
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov takes the Four Knights for a rough ride
by The NIC Editorial team