This volume brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 428 annotated games and 517 accompanying game fragments from January - April, 2006.
This volume brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 428 annotated games and 517 accompanying game fragments from January - April, 2006. Featuring games from Wijk aan Zee, Gibraltar, Moscow, Cappelle la Grande, Cuernavaca, Morelia/Linares, Poikovsky, Monaco, Kusadasi, Nisipeanu - V. Topalov (m), etc.
As usual, our contributors are the world’s best players: V. Anand, Svidler, Leko, Ivanchuk, Mi. Adams, B. Gelfand, R. Ponomariov, Shirov, Nisipeanu, Bareev, Sasikiran, Sergey Karjakin, Van Wely, J. Lautier, Vallejo Pons, Kasimdzhanov, A. Onischuk, Tiviakov, Rublevsky, Bruzon, A. Naiditsch, Motylev, A. Volokitin, Z. Izoria, L. Dominguez, Iv. Sokolov, M. Kobalia, Bologan, M. Gurevich, P. H. Nielsen, Krasenkow, A. Beliavsky, Riazantsev, Sutovsky, A. Galkin, J. Timman, Ch. Lutz, Christiansen, Je. Piket, Ribli, Speelman, Xie Yun, J. Benjamin, Ar. Jussupow, Mikhalchishin, Va. Salov, and many others.
Also this volume brings the voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 95, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of John Nunn creative output.