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.

Chess Informant 98 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 432 annotated games and 490 game fragments from the events held between September 1 and December 31, 2006.

Events Covered: Lausanne, Kramnik - V. Topalov (m), Barcelona, Hoogeveen, Cap d'Agde (rapid), Moscow, La Habana, Kramnik - Deep Fritz (m), Russia (ch), V. Topalov - Ju. Polgar (m-blindfold), Merida, Pamplona, etc.

Contributors: V. Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Leko, Morozevich, B. Gelfand, Svidler, Ju. Polgar, R. Ponomariov, Navara, Grischuk, Shirov, Sasikiran, N. Short, Nisipeanu, Van Wely, Kasimdzhanov, Sergey Karjakin, L. Dominguez, Rublevsky, Inarkiev, V. Milov, A. Naiditsch, Bologan, Smirin, Iv. Sokolov, Krasenkow, Motylev, Fressinet, A. Volokitin, Bareev, M. Kobalia, A. Beliavsky, M. Gurevich, Sutovsky, Alex. Fedorov, Bruzon, Illescas Cordoba, Ar. Jussupow, 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 97, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting recent combinations, endings and studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Boris Gelfand’s creative output.

Free Supplement with CD: Chess Informant 97 in PGN format
(games without annotations)