CHESS INFORMANT’S 151st ADVENTURE
Eternally Puzzled
CONTENTS:
WIJK AAN ZEE 2022 GM Ivan Sokolov
FIDE GRAND PRIX 2022 GM Elshan Moradiabadi
THE CLASH OF GENERATIONS GM Rafael Leitão
THE BERLIN RUY LÓPEZ GM Mikhail Golubev
THE SCANDINAVIAN – Part I GM Nigel Davies
NEW IDEAS IN THE PAULSEN SICILIAN GM Miloš Perunović
KING’S INDIAN, FIANCHETTO – Part II GM Krisztián Szabó
POSITIONAL ZUGZWANG GM Ivan Ivanišević
BISHOP PAIR IN CLOSED POSITIONS GM Michael Prusikin
IDEAS AND PLANS IN ISOLATED QUEEN’S PAWN (IQP) GM Sabina-Francesca Foişor
ROGERS’ REMINISCENCES – Manila Olympiad 1992 GM Ian Rogers
CHAMPION OF THE NEW EPOCH GM Marian Petrov
FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES Douglas Griffin
Traditional sections: games, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game from the preceding volume and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.
The periodical that pros use with pleasure is at the same time a must have publication for all serious chess students!
Contents:
Leitao – American Continental Championship (Tournament Review)
Moradiabadi & Arsovic– Fide Grand Prix Belgrade and Berlin (Tournament Review)
Gormally – Danny’s Chess Diary – 4NCL (Tournament Review)
Prusikin – Nimzowitsch Legacy (Instructive Lesson)
Foisor – The Pillsbury Attack (Instructive Lesson)
Davies – The 3...Qd6 Scandinavian – part 2 (Theoretical Survey)
Perunovic – The Alapin Sicilian (Theoretical Survey)
Szabo – The Scotch Game C45 (Theoretical Survey)
Petrov – World Championship Game Changers – part 4
Rogers – The Balaton Tournament 1983 (Roger’s Reminiscences)
Griffin – The most entertaining draw at the USSR Championships (From Informant Archives)
CHESS INFORMANT’S 153rd ADVENTURE
GRANDEUR
Sokolov – Candidates Tournament Madrid (Tournament Review)
Leitao – Brazilians at the Olympiad (Tournament Review)
Moradiabadi – Chennai Olympiad (Tournament Review)
Foisor – Chennai Olympiad, Women Section (Tournament Review)
Miodrag Perunovic – Chennai Olympiad, Team Serbia (Review)
Shyam Sundar – Instructive Lessons from Chennai
Navara – Prague Chess Masters (Review)
Gormally – British Chess Championship (Tournament Review)
Prusikin – The Fight Against the Fianchetto Bishop (Instructive Lesson)
Davies – The 3...g6 Ruy Lopez (Theoretical Survey)
Petrov – World Championship Game Changers – part 5
Rogers – Buenos Aires Chess Olympiad 1978 (Roger’s Reminiscences)
Griffin – A Tribute to Bora Ivkov (From Informant Archives)
CHESS INFORMANT’S 154th ADVENTURE
ECLIPSE
Leitao – Opening Trends in South American Chess
Moradiabadi – European Club Cup (Tournament Review)
Navara – European Club Cup – Novy Bor
Shyam Sundar – This or That? – Part 2
Gormally – 4NCL and Crypto Blitz (Tournament Review)
Marin – Benoni Files (Old Wine in New Bottles)
Kotronias – King’s Indian – Fianchetto Variation (Survey)
Perelshteyn – Dzindzi-Indian (Theoretical Survey)
Davies – The 3…g6 Ruy Lopez – Part 2 (Theoretical Survey)
Perunovic – Catalan (Theoretical Survey)
Rogers – Toluca 1982 Interzonal (Roger’s Reminiscences)
Griffin – Karpov – Timman 1981 (From Informant Archives)
CHESS INFORMANT’S 155th ADVENTURE
REJUVENATED
Leitao – Brazilian Champion in Wijk aan Zee (Tournament Review)
Moradiabadi – Tata Steel 2023 Wijk aan Zee (Tournament Review)
Yochanan Afek – Perls from Wijk (Tournament Review)
Perunovic – Instructive positions from Wijk
Foisor – Women FIDE Grand Prix Munich (Tournament Review)
Shyam Sundar – This or that? (Instructive Lesson)
Gormally – 4NCL (Review)
Prusikin – The Uncastled King (Instructive Lesson)
Davies – The Catalan 7.dc5 (Theoretical Survey)
Kotronias – The King’s Indian 5.h3 (Theoretical Survey)
Szabo – The French C11 (Theoretical Survey)
Perelshteyn – The Ruy Lopez Nerwegian Variation (Theoretical)
Petrov – World Championship Game Changers – part 6
Rogers – Belgrade Open 1984 (Roger’s Reminiscences)
Griffin – Ljubojevic – Miles, Olympiad 1980 (From Informant Archives)
CHESS INFORMANT’S 156th ADVENTURE
MESMERIZED
• Gormally – World Chess Championship – Nepo – Ding (Review)
• Shyam Sundar – World Chess Championship – The Most Instructive Moments and Positions
• Miodrag & Milos Perunovic – European Chess Championship (Tournament Report)
• Leitao – The English Opening (WCH Edition – Theoretical Survey)
• Foisor – Woman’s Candidates Final (Instructive Review)
• Prusikin – The Power of Knight Pair(Instructive Lesson)
• Davies – The Maroczy Bind (Theoretical Survey)
• Kotronias – The King’s Indian Saemisch (Theoretical Survey)
• Perelshteyn – The Alekhine Defence (Theoretical Survey)
• Rogers – Telechess Olympiads (Roger’s Reminiscences)
• Griffin – Vaganian – Gulko, Baku 1977 (From Informant Archives)
• Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess (Review)
CHESS INFORMANT’S 157th ADVENTURE
OMNIPRESENT
• In Memoriam – Remembering Aleksandar Matanovic
• Leitao – World Cup 2023 (Tournament Review)
• Shyam Sundar – This or that? – World Cup Edition
• Perunovic – Instructive positions from the World Cup
• Foisor – Women FIDE World Championship Match (Tournament Review)
• Gormally – British Chess Championship (Tournament Review)
• Moradiabadi – Biel Chess Festival (Tournament Review)
• Yochanan Afek – Prague Chess Festival (Tournament Review)
• Kotronias – The Classical Scotch 4...Bc5 (Theoretical Survey)
• Davies – The Sandipan Dutch (Theoretical Survey)
• Prusikin – The Exchange Slav Ideas (Instructive Lesson)
• Szabo – The King’s Indian Defence E91 (Theoretical Survey)
• Perelshteyn – The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon (Theoretical Survey)
• Petrov – World Championship Game Changers – part 7
• Rogers – The Japan 1978 Zonal Tournament (Roger’s Reminiscences)
• Griffin – Spassky-Portisch, Toluca Interzonal 1982 (From Informant Archives)
• Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess