This is the 19th issue covering games from the first half of 1975.
Former world champion Garry Kasparov asserted "We are all Children of the (Chess) Informant" in explaining the importance of these publications in preparing top level players for tournament competition.
IM Jeremy Silman, writing on Chess.com said, "I grew up with the Informants, and am delighted to own the whole set. The beauty of the Informants is:
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Each volume offers several hundred – hot off the presses (if you have the latest one) – annotated games. This allows you to keep up with cutting edge theory.
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The newer volumes have a section on the best games for that time period, the most important theoretical novelties, combinations, endings, and statistics.
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The newer volumes have a section that gives several theoretical articles. For example, Informant 104 has a 47 page spread on the Sveshnikov Sicilian, a 4 page study of a line in the Advance Variation of the Caro-Kann (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 Nd7 6.0-0 h6 7.Nbd2 Ne7 8.Nb3), 4 pages on the Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bg4), and 4 pages on another critical Slav line (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 Nbd7 7.Nc4 Qc7 8.g3 e5 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Bf4 Nfd7 11.Bg2 g5 – yes, this is where the analysis STARTS!).
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Tournament crosstables are also included (for the time spread that the particular Informant covers).
To me, these are must-own books."
Please note that while these volumes are new, some are more than thirty years old, as such there may be wrinkles in the binding or fading on the covers.
