152 wydanie Chess Informant. 

Equinox

Presents 320 pages of the very best in chess:

Velickovic - Editor's Corner

Speelman - Real-Time Action and British Miscellany

Perunovic - Serbian Chess Championship

Afek - Dutch Chess Championships

Kotronias - Najdorf Variation - 6. h3 e6! Repertoire for Black

Prusikin - Michael's Musings

Perelshteyn - Sicilian Dragondorf

Sprenger - Obstructing the Opponent's Plan

Edwards - Correspondence Chess Matters

Gonen - World of Correspondence Chess

Rogers - Candidates Semifinal Matches, London 1983

Griffin - From the Chess Informant Archives

Traditional sections: 287 games and fragments, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!

Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess:

- In Memoriam – Remembering Aleksandar Matanovic

- Leitao – World Cup 2023 (Tournament Review)

- Shyam Sundar – This or that? – World Cup Edition

- Perunovic – Instructive positions from the World Cup

- Foisor – Women FIDE World Championship Match (Tournament Review)

- Gormally – British Chess Championship (Tournament Review)

- Moradiabadi – Biel Chess Festival (Tournament Review)

- Yochanan Afek – Prague Chess Festival (Tournament Review)

- Kotronias – The Classical Scotch 4…Bc5 (Theoretical Survey)

- Davies – The Sandipan Dutch (Theoretical Survey)

- Prusikin – The Exchange Slav Ideas (Instructive Lesson)

- Davies – The Catalan 7.dc5 (Theoretical Survey)

- Szabo – The King’s Indian Defence E91 (Theoretical Survey)

- Perelshteyn – The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon (Theoretical Survey)

- Petrov – World Championship Game Changers – part 7

- Rogers – The Japan 1978 Zonal Tournament (Roger’s Reminiscences)

- Griffin – Spassky-Portisch, Toluca Interzonal 1982 (From Informant Archives)

- Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess

Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!

New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess opening theory. Have a look at what this issue has to offer.

Forum

The experiments have continued in the many online events held during the OTB lockdown. That makes excellent Forum material! Han Schut writes about Magnus Carlsen’s 7.g4 in the QGD (it gets played earlier and earlier) and René Olthof was pleasantly surprised by a Vasily Ivanchuk win with the King’s Gambit – an opening on which we also have a Survey, for the first time in ages, by Bogdan Lalic. And be sure not to miss Krishnan Sasikiran’s amazing analysis of a recent correspondence game featuring the Anti-Sveshnikov Sicilian.

From Our Own Correspondent

This time Erwin l’Ami presents a mixture of standard and non-standard openings. You’ll be surprised to know that From’s Gambit seems to hold up even in correspondence games! That is an encouraging thought for all those gambiteers out there. The Catalan and the QGD are also extensively scrutinized, the latter with a correspondence game by the Dutch GM himself, and he concludes with a study of two nice offbeat openings.

Reviews

The same juxtaposition as in the Correspondence column can also be found in Glenn Flear’s reviews this time. A Complete Opening Repertoire for Black after 1.e4 e5! by new author Yuriy Krykun (who will be awarded the IM title soon and has also written Surveys for us) features some fresh out-of-the-box ideas, and this is even more so in the case of Unconventional Approaches to Modern Chess Volumes 1 and 2 by Alexander Ipatov, whose middle name seems to be ‘Unorthodox’. More classical approaches can be found in Martyn Kravtsiv’s thorough work The Italian Renaissance (also 2 volumes!) and Squeezing 1.e4 e5: a solid strategic approach by Alexander Khalifman and Sergei Soloviov.

Presents 350 pages of the very best in chess:

Leitao – Opening Trends in South American Chess

Moradiabadi – European Club Cup (Tournament Review)

Navara – European Club Cup – Novy Bor

Shyam Sundar – This or That? – Part 2

Gormally – 4NCL and Crypto Blitz (Tournament Review)

Marin – Benoni Files (Old Wine in New Bottles)

Kotronias – King’s Indian – Fianchetto Variation (Survey)

Perelshteyn – Dzindzi-Indian (Theoretical Survey)

Davies – The 3…g6 Ruy Lopez – Part 2 (Theoretical Survey)

Perunovic – Catalan (Theoretical Survey)

Rogers – Toluca 1982 Interzonal (Roger’s Reminiscences)

Griffin – Karpov – Timman 1981(From Informant Archives)

Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!

New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess opening theory. Have a look at what this issue has to offer.

Chess Informant 162 “Manoeuvre!!” presents:

World Championship Match Ding – Gukesh, analysis by GM Ivan Ivanisevic

European Individual Chess Championship, analysis by GM Milos Perunovic

The Budapest Gambit, theoretical survey by GM Vasilios Kotronias

The King’s Gambit, 5.h3 Variation by GM K. Szabo

The Wandering King, instructive lecture by GM Michael Prusikin

Thankless Tasks, studies by GM Steffen Nielsen

Roger’s Reminiscences, Kasparov’s first trip to the West by GM Ian Rogers

A story of a Chess Prodigy – Roman Shogdzhiev

Traditional sections:

Correspondence Chess

The best game and most important theoretical novelty from the previous Volume

Endgames

Combinations

200 games according to ECO Codes.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!

151 wydanie Chess Informant. 

Eternally Puzzled

New In Chess Yearbook, which appears four times a year, contains the latest news in chess openings. Each issue brings you dozens of new ideas on the cutting edge of modern chess opening theory. Have a look at what this issue has to offer.

Forum

French guru Viktor Moskalenko shows two recent OTB games in the Forum Section, in which he was successful with some great ideas he presented in his latest book The Fully-Fledged French. One is a piece sac that gained him a 13-move win with black! Bogdan Lalic takes a look at another surprising black piece sac, in the King’s Indian this time. The Forum also contains some novelties from the World Cup, presented by Luis Rodi, Peter Boel and Frank Erwich.

From Sadler’s Engine Room

Matthew Sadler is our new columnist! He will alternate with Erwin l’Ami’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ column. The English grandmaster is well-known for the best-seller Game Changer he wrote with Natasha Regan, about computer chess. His new column will be on opening treatment by the top engines, and in his first instalment Matthew shows that these beasts are not at all averse to some offbeat opening play!

Reviews

Four books are reviewed this time – all of them with a quite original angle. The Modernized Italian Game for White by Alexander Kalinin & Nikolai Kalinichenko is more about understanding than learning lines by heart, and we know that it’s the same with Viktor Moskalenko’s books. With The Fully-Fledged French, the Ukrainian grandmaster has produced a new shoot on his favourite French opening, with a lot of brand new ideas. The didactic approach of Thomas Willemze in The Scandinavian for Club Players is really something else, and of course we couldn’t ignore the Iron English by the creative English duo Simon Williams & Richard Palliser.