This volume 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. Also this volume brings the voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 96, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Svetozar Gligoric creative output.