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, classified by openings and variations, are annotated by the players who played them in a system of symbols and codes, perfectly understandable to all the readers. There are also the most interesting endings, combinations, 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 86 contains 536 annotated games and 411 variations.

Events held between October 1st, 2002 and January 31st, 2003.

Events covered: Kramnik - Deep Fritz, B. Gelfand - Bacrot (m), Selfoss, Hyderabad, Hoogeveen, Bled (ol), Cap d'Agde (rapid), Warszawa (rapid), Benidorm (rapid), Pamplona, Hastings, USA (ch), Korchnoi - Sadvakasov (m), Wijk aan Zee, Bermuda, Kasparov - Deep Junior.

Contributors: G. Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Lékó, M. Adams, R. Ponomariov, Bareev, Shirov, Grischuk, Khalifman, Ju. Polgár, B. Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Short, Dreev, I. Sokolov, An. Karpov, Azmaiparashvili, Kasimdzhanov, J. Lautier, Van Wely, Sasikiran, S. Movsesian, Sutovsky, A. Beliavsky, Piket, Sakaev, Rublevsky, Korchnoi, Ch. Lutz, Lputian, Tiviakov, M. Gurevich, Krasenkow, Bologan, Macieja, Kaidanov and many others.

Trademark sections: The voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 85, theoretical survey in the ECO format, selected combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best from Vassily Ivanchuk's creative output.

Free supplement with the Informant #86 on CD: Chess Informant 85 in PGN format (games without annotations)