Informator 104 (Book)
paperback, 324 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 104 contains 299 annotated games and 317 variations.
Covers events held between September 1st and December 31st, 2008
Events covered: Bilbao, China – Russia (m), Russia (ch), Kallithea, Kramnik – Anand (wch), Cap d’Agde (rapid), Dresden (ol), Nanjing, Elista, Pamplona, Reggio Emilia, etc.
Contributors: V. Anand, Ivanchuk, Morozevich, Kramnik, Leko, B. Gelfand, Svidler, Dominguez Perez, Mi. Adams, Sergey Karjakin, Bu Xiangzhi, Rublevsky, P. Eljanov, A. Naiditsch, Bologan, Tiviakov, A. Volokitin, V. Milov, A. Onischuk, Ivan Sokolov, Predojevic, Amonatov, Roiz, A. Beliavsky, Rauf Mamedov, Navara, M. Gurevich, Va. Salov, Van Wely, Krasenkow, Ar. Jussupow, J. Benjamin, L. Christiansen, Ribli, Ch. Lutz, Xie Yun, J. Timman, Mikhalchishin, Speelman, and many others.
PLUS! The best of Alexander Khalifman