Chess Informant 84 offers an unmatched selection of 488 annotated games and 509 variations from the events held between February 1st, 2002 and May 31st, 2002 along with the trademark sections. The following events are covered: Moscow, Linares, Cannes, Monaco, Dubai (rapid), Poikovsky, Essen, Praha (rapid), La Habana, Sarajevo, etc.

As usual, our contributors are the world's best players: G. Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, M. Adams, R. Ponomariov, Bareev, Leko, Ivanchuk, B. Gelfand, Shirov, An. Karpov, I. Sokolov, Smirin, Dreev, Z. Almasi, Zvjaginsev, J. Lautier, Ki. Georgiev, Rublevsky, Krasenkow, S. Movsesian, A. Beliavsky, Ch. Lutz, M. Gurevich, Kasimdzhanov, Sakaev, Je. Piket, Van Wely, Al. Onischuk, Kaidanov, Korchnoi, and many others.

This volume brings the voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 83, theoretical survey in the ECO format, selected combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best from Nigel Short's creative output.

Chess Informant trademark sections are also available in the electronic format (readable in Chess Informant Expert only).