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The Best of Chess Informant
Viswanathan Anand (CD)

$54.95

CLOSE-UP
   Foreword by Viswanathan Anand
   Bio & Facts
   Tournaments

GAMES
   1052 published games, 456 annotated by Anand
   White/Black repertoire trees
   Stats

CREATIVITY
   Best games
      100 best games
      Chess Informant Jury
   Most important theoretical novelties
      Novelties
      Chess Informant Jury
      Theoretical surveys (B 12, C 45, E 05)

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

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

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Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings ABCDE (CD) - $210

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 100 contains 451 annotated games and 489 variations.
More information about this particular edition is shown in the tables below.

The First Hundred Informants

by Aleksandar Matanovic

Forty-two years ago an idea was born:

• To select the most distinguished chess games from all major events;

• To establish a "chess language" - an international code akin to those used in mathematics and music, equally understandable to chessplayers all over the globe;

• To substitute traditional opening names with a "classification of chess openings" based on evaluation of all the available hitherto played games.

Having delved into an adventure that has spanned more than four decades, little did we know that we were trailblazing a path towards an era yet to come - the information era. With no support from our chess organization or any financial backup (in spite of the fact that Belgrade was a true chess center at the time), and led only by our firm belief that we were doing the right thing, our enthusiasm gave birth to the first volume of Chess Informant in 1966.

Chessplayers all over the world would finally have access to information they needed. The "Chess Bible" kept spreading the word to the disciples - the "Chess Informant generation": we have a language of our own - "Gens una sumus!"

The statistics speak volumes about the energy and knowledge found between the covers of one hundred Informants. We have published a total of 101,033 games, along with a selection of 3,128 combinations, 2,503 endings and 108 studies. Viktor Korchnoi has had the most games appear in Chess Informants - an awe inspiring total of 1,709, closely followed by Jan Timman's 1,703 over-the-board battles. The longest game to appear was Van der Wiel - Fedorowitz, Graz 1981 - it took 143 moves to determine the outcome! Among the openings, we also have a record: there were 1,498 ECO B33 games (the Lasker-Pelikan Sicilian, Sveshnikov variation). World Champions, both men and women, from Max Euwe to Viswanathan Anand, appear in exactly 10,639 games, heading an impressive list of more than 3,000 different contributors.

We had thus created a foundation that led to many more publications:

• Five volumes of Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings;

• Five volumes of Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings;

• Anthology of Chess Combinations;

• Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings;

• 1,234 Chess Problems;

• Monographs of Chess Openings, etc.

From all the games ever published in Chess Informant, the Editorial Board and a jury of leading grandmasters chose the ten best games from each volume, and among them - a golden winner for each volume. These 1,000 games (100 of them are "golden") have been compiled in a book that will soon be available. They represent the hallmark of an era heralding some of the greatest achievements in chess, and the crowning of the creative efforts of thousands of chessplayers.

All that we have achieved, we have done together!