Updates May 2007

	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 98 contains 432 annotated games and 490 variations.
More information about this particular edition is shown in the tables below.

events held between	September 1st, 2006 and December 31st, 2006
events covered	Lausanne, Kramnik - V. Topalov (m), Barcelona, Hoogeveen, Cap d'Agde (rapid), Moscow, La Habana, Kramnik - Deep Fritz (m), Russia (ch), V. Topalov - Ju. Polgar (m-blindfold), Merida, Pamplona, etc.
contributors	V. Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Leko, Morozevich, B. Gelfand, Svidler, Ju. Polgar, R. Ponomariov, Navara, Grischuk, Shirov, Sasikiran, N. Short, Nisipeanu, Van Wely, Kasimdzhanov, Sergey Karjakin, L. Dominguez, Rublevsky, Inarkiev, V. Milov, A. Naiditsch, Bologan, Smirin, Iv. Sokolov, Krasenkow, Motylev, Fressinet, A. Volokitin, Bareev, M. Kobalia, A. Beliavsky, M. Gurevich, Sutovsky, Alex. Fedorov, Bruzon, Illescas Cordoba, Ar. Jussupow, 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 97, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting recent combinations, endings and studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Boris Gelfand’s creative output.

free supplement with CD

Chess Informant 97 in PGN format
(games without annotations)

CLOSE-UP
   Foreword
   Bio & Facts
   Tournaments

GAMES
   843 published games, 391 annotated by Kramnik
   White/Black repertoire trees
   Stats

CREATIVITY
   Best games
      5 golden games
      100 best games
      Chess Informant Jury
   Most important theoretical novelties
      Novelties
      Chess Informant Jury
      Theoretical surveys (C 42, D 85, E 04)

PLAY LIKE KRAMNIK
   Combinations
   Excellent moves
   Attack
   Storming initiative
   Defense
   Endings
   Rare Blunders & Misconceptions

In 4 different formats (Chess Informant Expert, PGN, ChessBase and Chess Assistant)

Could a million game database help people to master the openings? Perhaps, if they worked 25 hours a day, had elephantine memories and were able to separate valuable information from the surrounding chaff. Half of century ago, when apart from Hastings there were only two or three international tournaments a year, openings books were based, not on huge numbers of examples, but rather the main ideas from a few games by leading players. The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings combines this selective approach with today's exhaustive collection of material. The five volume Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings - A, B, C, D, E - consists of 500 sections based on opening codes. Its key quality, unique among openings books, is a system of elimination which helps the reader to find the critical lines in the midst of the abundance of information. The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings is based on the same 500 fundamental codes and system of elimination but it's a fifth the length. Instead of five books just one! The best and most up to date information. The creative output of generations of chess masters filtered for the reader's convenience. One of the main problems of tournament play is successfully negotating the opening. The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings gives easy access to clear and reliable information for the numerous chess players who have competitive ambitions but only limited time to dedicate to chess. While for players with greater competitive experience and chess professionals, the Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings offers an ideal repository of information and the exact evaluation of critical lines.
	Small ECO 2nd ed. on a CD in four different formats (CIE, PGN, CBH, CA).

Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings chain is made up of innumerable chains - games. Each game has the precisely defined place in this chain, which depends on estimation of a new move in opening, while the complete value of the book depends on the correctness of these estimations. without 1. d4, 1. e4 1. d4 without 1... d5, 1... Nf6 1. d4 Nf6 without 2. c4 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 without 2... e6, 2... g6 The basis of ECO are the games from Chess Informant annotated by the best players of today and the estimations given by them. They are guarantee and filter through which all the openings comprised by the volume A - 4th edition, have passed through: English Openings, Dutch Defence, Benoni, Reti, Volga Gambit… ECO A, EE is electronic edition of the ECO A in the Chess Informant Reader format. It is available from March, 23th, while the printed book is available in the beginning of April, 2001.
	ECO A 4th ed. on a CD in four different formats (CIE, PGN, CBH, CA).

Probably the most wanted Chess Informant's publication, the fourth expanded edition of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Volume B, all Black's responses against 1. e4 except 1... e6 and 1... e5: Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Pirc, Modern, Alekhine, Scandinavian and all other Black's rare opening choices against the bold advance of White's king's pawn games and analyses from Chess Informants 1-82 important game entries from recent tournament practice revised ECO codes *Chess Informant's* trademark system of elimination remains one of the key qualities that contributes to the fundamental value of the Encyclopaedias. Previously filtered into Chess Informants 1-82, all lines had to additionally pass through multiple sieves of the Chess Informant Editorial Board to deserve their place in the fourth edition. Moreover, only the most extraordinary examples that failed to find their way to the Informants managed to sneak into the new Encyclopaedia. So, that's the story of the fourth expanded edition of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Volume B, and it seems to be the story of success - Chess Informant never leaves a single dilemma on what to expect in the outcome!
	ECO B 4th ed. on a CD in four different formats (CIE, PGN, CBH, CA).