Chess Informant 85 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 492 annotated games and 471 game fragments from the events held between June 1st, 2002 and September 30st, 2002 along with the trademark sections. The following events are covered: Moscow (rapid), Malmö, Batumi, León (advanced chess), Nederland (ch), Paris (rapid), Belfort, Kaskády, Qingdao, Esbjerg, Dortmund, J. Timman - A. Naiditsch (m), China - USA, Biel, R. Ponomariov - Anand (rapid-m), France (ch), San Francisco, Schweiz - Deutschland, Russia - Rest of the World (rapid), Kallithea, etc.
As usual, our contributors are the world's best players: G. Kasparov, Anand, M. Adams, Lékó, R. Ponomariov, Bareev, Ivanchuk, B. Gelfand, Svidler, An. Karpov, Ju. Polgár, I. Sokolov, Smirin, Van Wely, Dreev, Z. Almási, J. Lautier, Rublevsky, Ki. Georgiev, Sutovsky, Kasimdzhanov, Krasenkow, S. Movsesian, A. Beliavsky, Al. Onischuk, Sakaev, Ch. Lutz, S. Volkov, M. Gurevich, Korchnoi, Motylev, Tiviakov, Bologan, Kobalia, Jussupow, V. Milov, Zhang Zhong, Dautov, Macieja and many others.
Chess Informant 85 CD contains another free supplement: Chess Informant 84 in PGN format (games without annotations)