Available in the second half of December 2006. Available on a CD, together with the software. Chess Informant 97 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 431 annotated games and 469 accompanying game fragments from May - August, 2006.
Featuring games from Sarajevo, Sofia, Torino (ol), Foros, Taiyuan, Biel, Paks, Dortmund, Montreal, China - Russia (m), Amsterdam, etc.
As usual, our contributors are the world’s best players: V. Anand, Kramnik, Svidler, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Leko, Mi. Adams, B. Gelfand, Mamedyarov, Navara, Grischuk, R. Ponomariov, Nisipeanu, Rublevsky, Ki. Georgiev, Tiviakov, N. Short, Van Wely, A. Naiditsch, Sergey Karjakin, Kasimdzhanov, Bu Xiangzhi, Iv. Sokolov, J. Lautier, Bologan, V. Milov, L. Dominguez, M. Gurevich, Bruzon, Krasenkow, A. Volokitin, B. Avrukh, Va. Salov, M. Kobalia, P. H. Nielsen, A. Beliavsky, Alexander Moiseenko, Riazantsev, Je. Piket, Macieja, Sutovsky, T. Gelashvili, A. Galkin, Ar. Jussupow, Vescovi, Ribli, Xie Yun, Christiansen, J. Timman, J. Benjamin, Mikhalchishin, Speelman, and many others.
Free supplement: Chess Informant 96 in PGN format
(games without annotations)