There are more than 100 contributors in Chess Informant 111, including seventy-six grandmasters, among them are World Champion Vishy Anand, former World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Judit Polgar, Vitiugov, Bologan, Sasikiran, Ivan Sokolov, Berkes, Volokitin, Tiviakov, Christiansen, Marin, Stohl, Beliavsky, and more!
Notable new names to our contributor roster include Inarkiev, Sargissian, Kiril Georgiev, Parligras, Zhao Jun, Delchev, Zontakh, Igor Miladinovic, and Predojevic. Not to mention that you don't want to miss two exceptional games from Zhao Jun from Beijing; these games will be among the candidates for best game accolades.
Chess Informant 111 gathers together some of brightest young lions of today's chess world. You surely must have heard of American stars Shankland and Naroditsky, Philipine tigers Wesley So and Darwin Laylo, African champion Bassem Amin from Egypt or promising players such as Kalmikian Sjugirov from Russia, Sanikidze from Georgia, or the Hungarians Berczes and Erdos.
In fact, before Wesley So became a contributor, he was a Chess Informant reader. The new editor-in-chief, GM Branko Tadic, was completely amazed by the quality and depth of the annotations that Wesley So contributed to Chess Informant 111. So's coverage of the Grünfeld Defence was so complex and interesting that we had to open additional space inside CI Labs for a further theoretical survey; one which gained the admiration of his CI Labs colleagues.
The CI Labs crew presents original ideas on the following openings:
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B12 Caro-Kann Advanced Variation by GM Milos Perunovic
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C41 Philidor Defence Gambit Variation by GM Robert Markus
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C70 Ruy Lopez by GM Ivan Ivanisevic
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D76 Grünfeld Defence Fianchetto Variation by GM Wesley So
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E35-37 Nimzo-Indian Defence 4.Qc2 System by GM Bojan Vuckovic
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E68 King's-Indian Defence Fianchetto Variation by GM Dragan Solak
Last but not least, Chess Informant 111 introduces a completely redesigned CD. The content of which is evolving towards the look and feel of an advanced digital chess magazine. These changes should improve the overall user experience.
