Chess Informant 86 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 536 annotated games and 411 fragments from the events held between October 1st, 2002 and January 31st, 2003.
The following events are covered: Kramnik – Deep Fritz, B. Gelfand – Bacrot, Selfoss, Hyderabad, Hoogeveen, Bled (ol), Cap d’Agde (rapid), Warszawa (rapid), Benidorm (rapid), Pamplona, Hastings, USA (ch), Korchnoi – Sadvakasov, Wijk aan Zee, Bermuda, Kasparov – Deep Junior, etc.
As usual, our contributors are the world’s best players: G. Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Leko, M. Adams, R. Ponomariov, Bareev, Shirov, Grischuk, Khalifman, Ju. Polgar, B. Gelfand, Ivanchuk, Short, Dreev, I. Sokolov, An. Karpov, Azmaiparashvili, Kasimdzhanov, J. Lautier, Van Wely, Sasikiran, S. Movsesian, Sutovsky, A. Beliavsky, Piket, Sakaev, Rublevsky, Korchnoi, Ch. Lutz, Lputian, Tiviakov, M. Gurevich, Krasenkow, Bologan, Macieja, Kaidanov and many others.