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Chess Informant 104 brings together a thoroughly refined selection of 299 annotated games and 317 game fragments from the events held between September 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008.

New column "Modern Chess Theory" completely covers four most popular openings B 33, B 12, D 12 and D 17.


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brings a selection of 1,287 fully annotated theoretically important games and 1,494 accompanying game fragments played between September 2007 and August 2008.

Top TNT (TOP - Theory, Novelties, Tournaments) No 3 covers the top tournaments played from January 1st to April 30th, 2009.

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6
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King's Indian, Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, Catalan, Bogo-Indian, ...

Fourth edition of ECO E is thirty percent larger (144 pages) than the previous edition.

672 pages!

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6
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 Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
 

Second edition with the latest ECO E 4th edition included.

The five volume Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings - A, B, C, D, E - consists of 500 sections based on opening codes. Its key quality, unique among openings books, is a system of elimination which helps the reader to find the critical lines in the midst of the abundance of information.

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A Triumph of quality over quantity!

From all the games ever published in Chess Informants, the Editorial Board and a jury of leading grandmasters chose the ten best games from each volume, and among them - a golden winner for each volume. These 1,000 games (100 of them are "golden") have been compiled in a book that represent the greatest achievements in chess.

ECO Index created by Robert Dabo-Peranic 1000 The Best of the Best ECO Index.pdf

Martin Rieger Review

Eugene Manchester Review


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Chess Informants 1-100 CD brings a selection of 101,031 fully annotated theoretically important games played between January 1966 and August 2007.

The total of 2494 examples contains the output over the span of nearly four decades (1968 - 2007), thus offering a rich treasury of available endgame material.

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The Pearl in the Endings


The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings gives easy access to clear and reliable information for the numerous chess players who have competitive ambitions but only limited time to dedicate to chess.

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Various moves without 1. d4, 1. e4

1. d4 without 1... Nf6, 1... d5

1. d4 Nf6 without 2. c4

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 without 2... e6, 2... g6

English Openings, Dutch Defence, Benoni, Reti, Volga Gambit…

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1. e4 e6

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Foreword by Zdenko Krnic

Prof. Nagesh Havanur Review

 

 

"Many of Karpov's intentions become understandable to his opponents only when salvation is no longer possible."

Mikhail Tal

Fourteen best games


 

Meet the Greatest Champion of all times: GK - Up Close & Personal

Foreword by Garry Kasparov "We are all Children of the Informant"

Frank Grosse's Review

Mark Weeks's Review


One of the most popular books on tactics and combinations ever released is now available on CD for the first time. It comes with Chess Informant Solver's Kit, a new CI product for self-testing in the field of chess combinations with powerful features such as searching combinations, viewing in HTML and exporting & sending combinations subsets to other Solver users by e-mail.
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