Chess Informants - ISSUE 114

Chess Informants - ISSUE 114
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Weight: 1.3125
Author: Chess Informants
Publication Date: July 1, 2012
Notation Type: FAN - Figurine
Page Count: 340 Pages

Book Description

Garry's Choice – 2nd exclusive column by Garry Kasparov! The 13th World champion dissects top games of modern chess/ in English, 8 pages.

NEW: "Old Wine in New Bottles" - exclusive column by Mihail Marin! Well known writer and grandmaster explains extraordinary chess ideas from "now and then"/ in English, 8 pages

NEW: "One country – It's time 4 Sweden" - games annotated by leading Swedish grandmasters, Berg, Grandelius, Carlsson and Tikkanen../ in English, 12 pages

Coverage of WCC match Anand-Gelfand - by grandmaster Kidambi Sundararajan/ in English, 6 pages

Top Five – exclusive annotations by five World's top players (2700+), Jakovenko, Short, Volokitin, Vitiugov and Inarkiev/ in English, 22 pages

CI Labs 114 – 8 theoretical surveys with original analyses by grandmasters:

  • Ivan Cheparinov - English, Anti-Gruenfeld A16
  • Alexander Delchev – Modern Reti, Neo-Catalan A13
  • Kidambi Sundararajan – Sicilian, Sheveningen B85
  • Sam Shankland - Ruy Lopez, Bird's defence C61
  • Bassem Amin - French Defence, Kings Indian Attack C00
  • Dimitris Mastrovasilis – Four Knights, Scotch variation C47
  • Alexei Bezgodov- Queen's gambit, Tarrasch defence D32
  • Rafael Leitao – Catalan, Classical E05
  • in English, 38 pages

Rising stars column is presenting young American grandmaster Samuel Shankland with his annotations of two recent games/ in English, 7 pages

Portrait of Gata Kamsky – The best from his career so far/ in Informant non-language style, 13 pages

Games – traditional section, 80+ contributors including Morozevich, Movsesian, Bologan, Rublevsky, Jakovenko, Bartel, Sasikiran, Sargissian, Kiril Georgiev, Sjugirov, Vitiugov, Volokitin, Tiviakov, Erdos, Sulskis, etc./ in Informant non-language style, 175 pages

Standard Informant content: Contest for the best game and novelty, Combinations, Endings, Excellent moves, Problems by M.Velimirovic, Studies by Y.Afek, Tournaments report.../in English and Informant non-language style, 49 pages

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