This volume brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 432 annotated games and about 490 accompanying game fragments from September - December 2006.
Featuring games from Kramnik - Topalov (m), Barcelona Hoogeveen, La Habana, Lausanne, Merida, Moscow, Russia (ch), Wolvega etc. As usual, our contributors are the world’s best players.
Also this volume brings the voting for the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 97, theoretical survey in ECO format, the most interesting combinations and endings from recent tournament practice, studies, tournament standings and crosstables, and the best of Boris Gelfand creative output.
CD Chess Informant 98 includes a free supplement of Chess Informant 97 in PGN format (games without annotations).