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Chess Informant
section with problems from recent play. A similar endin-
gs section has also become a standard feature.
Previously, the main games were presented in full,
showing all the moves played. More recently, many of
the main games are in fact game fragments, where the
coverage ends around move 20 to 30. Reviewing the In-
formant for The Chess Cafe, Carsten Hansen viewed this
as an improvement, since the sudden death time controls
often lead to hasty play at the end of game due to time
pressure.[3] He was more critical of truncating the game
after the opening or early middlegame in a 2009 re-
view.[4]
For two decades prior to the emergence of computer
databases, Chess Informant publications were a leading
source of games and analysis for serious chess players.[5]
The publication routinely appears in the bibliography
of texts on specific chess openings[6] and other chess
texts.[7]
The Chess Informant system of codes for the classifi-
cation of chess openings, and its system of symbols have
set the international standard[8] for organizing chess in-
formation and communicating this information across
language barriers. The system of codes is explained in ten
languages on the front of each issue of Informant, the En-
cyclopaedia of Chess Openings, and other publications.
Former world champion Garry Kasparov asserted "We
Chess Informant, issue #97 (2006) are all Children of the Informant,"[9] and then explained
that his own development as a chess player correspond-
Chess Informant (Šahovski Informator) is a publishing ed with the ascendance of Chess Informant’s popular-
company from Belgrade (Serbia, former Yugoslavia) that ity. Other world champions, including Anatoly Karpov,
periodically (since 1990, three volumes per year) pro- Vladimir Kramnik, and Vishwanathan Anand, attest that
duces a book of the same name, as well as the Ency- Informant is central to their tournament preparation. [1]
clopaedia of Chess Openings, Encyclopaedia of Chess Endin- On April 1, 2008, Informant issued its one-hundredth
gs, Opening Monographs, other print publications, and soft- issue.[10]
ware (including electronic editions of most print publi-
cations). Aleksandar Matanović and Milivoje Molerović See also
founded the company in 1966 for the purpose of offering
the rest of the world the sort of access to chess infor- • List of chess periodicals
mation enjoyed by Soviet players. The company has sold
three million books in 150 countries, according to its References
website.[1]
[1] ^ Chess Informant website, "About Us" section
Chess Informant published two issues per year in
[2] David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, The Oxford
1966–1990, and since 1991 has published three issues per
Companion to Chess (Oxford UP, 1996), p.251.
year.[2] Each issue offers several hundred games or frag-
[3] Hansen, Carsten (October, 2007). "Yearbooks and
ments of games from master play, many annotated by the
Serials (Checkpoint)". Chesscafe.com.
players themselves. A board of leading players selects the
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen101.pdf.
best games of each issue, and these are republished in the
Retrieved 2009-05-11.
next issue often with more extensive annotations. Each
[4] Hansen, Carsten (May 2009). "More Repertoires
issue since Chess Informant 5 has included a combinations
(Checkpoint)". Chesscafe.com.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chess Informant
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen120.pdf. [8] See, for example, Artur Yusupov, The Petroff Defence,
Retrieved 2009-05-11. Progress in Chess, vol. 1 (Zurich: Edition Olms,
[5] Edward Winter laments them as a "convenient 1999); also Bruce Pandolfini, "A Fiery Cauldron of
research prop" that fuel ignorance of history. Kings, Competition," Chess Life (July 2006), p.45 (referring
Commoners, and Knaves, p. 297. to the widely understood +− as "Informant speak").
[6] John Watson, Play the French, 3d edition, p. 4; [9] The Best of Chess Informant: Garry Kasparov
Graham Burgess, Winning with the Smith-Morra [10] Chess Informant no. 100 : ChessVibes
Gambit, p.4; Glenn Flear, The Ruy Lopez Main Line, p.
[7]
4.
Garry Kasparov, My Great Predecessors, Part IV,
External links
Fischer, p.493. • Chess Informant
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