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 are annotated by the players who played them. The classification code system facilitates the search by openings and variations, and the system of annotation signs and symbols is perfectly understandable to everyone. There are also the most interesting endings, combinations, studies, the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from the previous volume, tournament crosstables and thorough indexes of players and annotators.
 
Events covered in Chess Informant #97: Sarajevo, Sofia, Torino (ol), Foros, Taiyuan, Biel, Paks, Dortmund, Montreal, China - Russia (m), Amsterdam, etc.
 
Contributors: V. Anand, Kramnik, Svidler, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Leko, Mi. Adams, B. Gelfand, Mamedyarov, Navara, Grischuk, R. Ponomariov, Nisipeanu, Rublevsky, Ki. Georgiev, Tiviakov, N. Short, Van Wely, A. Naiditsch, Sergey Karjakin, Kasimdzhanov, Bu Xiangzhi, Iv. Sokolov, J. Lautier, Bologan, V. Milov, L. Dominguez, M. Gurevich, Bruzon, Krasenkow, A. Volokitin, B. Avrukh, Va. Salov, M. Kobalia, P. H. Nielsen, A. Beliavsky, Alexander Moiseenko, Riazantsev, Je. Piket, Macieja, Sutovsky, T. Gelashvili, A. Galkin, Ar. Jussupow, Vescovi, Ribli, Xie Yun, Christiansen, J. Timman, J. Benjamin, Mikhalchishin, Speelman, and many others.
 
Trademark Sections: The voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 96, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting recent combinations, endings and studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Svetozar Gligoric’s creative output.
 
Free Supplement (CD only): Chess Informant #96 in PGN format (games without annotations)