340 pages

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 102 contains 421 annotated games and 467 variations.

Covers events held between January 31st and April 30th 2008.

Events Covered: Odessa, Maalot-Tarshiha, Wijk aan Zee, Moscow, Morelia/Linares, Nice, Heviz, Merida, Plovdiv, Baku, etc.

Contributors: Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Leko, Svidler, Adams, Karjakin, Gelfand, Polgar, Bu Xiangzhi, Rublevsky, Nisipeanu, Wang Hao, Bologan, Sasikiran, Roiz, Kasimdzhanov, Inarkiev, Motylev, Volokitin, Georgiev, Ivanisevic, Sokolov, Dreev, Avrukh, Sutovsky, Amonatov, Navara, Tiviakov, Salov, Van Wely, Krasenkow, Predojevic, Moiseenko, Gurevich, Beliavsky, Yusupov, Benjamin, Christiansen, Ribli, Lutz, Xie Jun, Timman, Mikhalchishin, Speelman, and many others.

Trademark Sections: The voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 101, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting recent combinations, endings and studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Vlastimil Hort’s creative output.