Chess Informant 113 – Clockwork edition

Paperback, 344 pages, March 2012

Featuring: “Garry’s Choice” – exclusive column by Garry Kasparov! The 13th World champion dissects top games of modern chess/ in English, 6 pages

“Top Five” – exclusive annotations by five world’s top players, Morozevich, Tomashevsky, Vitiugov, Moiseenko and Inarkiev/ in English, 23 pages

“CI Labs 113” – 10 theoretical surveys with original analyses by grandmasters:

Ivan Cheparinov - Queen’s gambit D35

Ivan Ivanisevic - King’s Indian Defence E97

Alexander Delchev - English opening A20

Kidambi Sundararajan - Ruy Lopez C67, Berlin Defence

Viktor Erdos - Ruy Lopez C67, Rio de Janeiro variation

Misa Pap - French Defence C02

Stelios Halkias - English opening A30

Tornike Sanikidze - Queen’s gambit D39

Robert Markus - Volga-Benko gambit A57

Milos Perunovic - Sicilian Defence B42 in English, 47 pages

“Rising stars” column is presenting young Greek champion Antonis Pavlidis with two of his recent annotated games/ in English, 5 pages

Portrait of Alexander Morozevich – The best from his career so far/ in Informant non-language style, 31 pages

Games – traditional section, 80+ contributors including World champion Viswanathan Anand, Volokitin, Bologan, Shankland, Macieja, Tiviakov, Roiz, Sulskis, Jimenez, Amin, Rogers, Golod, Marin, Smith, etc./ in Informant non-language style, 171 pages

Contest for the best game and novelty, Combinations, Endings, Excellent moves, Problems by M.Velimirovic, Studies by Y.Afek, Tournaments

GARRY'S CHOICE Intro by Josip Asik

Garry Kasparov, the Thirteenth World Champion, tremendously influenced the development of chess with his games, analyses, and writings. The quality of this work has greatly enriched our chess culture, and Chess Informant has had the privilege of presenting the fruits of his deep analytical work for more than thirty years. The number thirteen has always been Garry's lucky number, and Chess Informant 113 sees the return of his analytical work in the pages of our publication. Seven years after his retirement from professional chess, we are deeply honoured to welcome Garry back to Chess Informant! In the new column, "Garry's Choice," he will be annotating select games from recent practice, casting his critical eye on the efforts of modern chess stars – and mere "mortals" – in his trademark style. You would never guess in a hundred tries as to what game Garry chose to start his inaugural column. We couldn't, either! I will only reveal that he describes it as "a unique guest even on chess Olympus" and claimed he "had never seen anything like it in my chess career"!