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CHESS INFORMANT’S 161st ADVENTURE

OLYMPIC SPIRIT

CONTENTS:

• VELICKOVIC – EDITOR'S CORNER

• SPEELMAN – REAL-TIME ACTION AND BRITISH MISCELLANY

• PERUNOVIC – SERBIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

• AFEK – DUTCH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

• KOTRONIAS – NAJDORF VARIATION – 6. h3 e6! Repertoire for Black

• PRUSIKIN – MICHAEL'S MUSINGS

• PERELSHTEYN – SICILIAN DRAGONDORF

• SPRENGER – OBSTRUCTING THE OPPONENT'S PLAN

• EDWARDS – CORRESPONDENCE CHESS MATTERS

• GONEN – WORLD OF CORRESPONDENCE CHESS

• ROGERS – Candidates Semifinal Matches, London 1983

• GRIFFIN – FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES

Traditional sections: 287 games and fragments, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game and the most important theoretical novelty from the preceding volume.

The periodical that pros use with pleasure, and at the same time, a must-have publication for all serious chess students!

Themes: Annihilation of Defence, Blockade, Clearance, Deflection, Discovered Attack, Pinning, Demolition of Pawn structure, Decoy, Interference, Double Attack

Levels: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced

Finally, a word of advice!

Beginners and relatively inexperienced players should study and play through all the examples on a chessboard. Also, it is advisable to write down the solutions with all the variations you calculated, and only after the training session to compare those with the Solutions given in the Encyclopaedia. Keep your notes in a notebook especially dedicated for that purpose, so you could monitor and assess your own progress. As you progress you will be able to solve many of the basic and intermediate examples without a chessboard, but still writing down the solutions and variations is of extreme importance. Of course, when you successfully reach higher echelons of chess mastery you will be able to solve large portions of the examples without a chess board, only by looking at the diagrams.

The Encyclopaedia of Chess Combinations is a benchmark work on the art of chess tactics and combinations. It is designed to offer the infinite pleasure for chess enthusiasts, everlasting source of training for most diligent students, and would-be-grandmasters.

CHESS INFORMANT’S 160th ADVENTURE

STEP AHEAD

CONTENTS:

• PAVLOVIC – OVERVIEW OF CANDIDATES

• AFEK – AN UZBEK VICTORY IN PRAGUE

• PERUNOVIC – AUSTRIAN BUNDESLIGA 2023/24

• SPEELMAN – HAND IN SILICON HAND

• KOTRONIAS – KING'S INDIAN DEFENCE – 5.Be2 Variation

• NTIRLIS – DEEP OPENING IDEAS THAT ARE NOT JUST FOR GRANDMASTERS

• PRUSIKIN – ABOUT OUTPOSTS AND PAWN MAJORITIES

• BARAK GONEN – WORLD OF CORRESPONDENCE CHESS

• DJURASEVIC – STUDIES – PEARLS OF THE CHESS GAMES

• ROGERS – THE SEMTEX BLUES

• GRIFFIN – FROM THE CHESS INFORMANT ARCHIVES

Traditional sections: 355 games and fragments, combinations, endings, Tournament reviews, the best game 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!

CHESS INFORMANT’S 159th ADVENTURE

VIGOROUS

CONTENTS:

• Afek - Wijk aan Zee 2024 (Tournament Review)

• Leitao - The Difficult Art of Defence in Chess

• Gormally - My Hastings Nightmare (Danny's Chess Diary

• Kotronias - King's Indian Defence - Gligoric System (Theoretical Survey)

• Perelshteyn - The Alekhine - Exchange Variation (Theoretical Survey)

• Davies - Understanding the Openings (Theoretical Survey)

• Perunovic - The Sicilian Off-Road (Theoretical Survey)

• Marin - Old Wine in New Bottles

• Prusikin - The Caro-Kann Exchange Variation (Instructive Lesson)

• Barak Gonen - World of Correspondence Chess

• Rogers - Europe v Asia Match, Batumi 2001 (Roger’s Reminiscences)

• Griffin - Browne v Hort, Wijk aan Zee 1975 (From Informant Archives)

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!

CHESS INFORMANT’S 158th ADVENTURE

AURORA

CONTENTS:

• Leitao – Opening Ideas in Modern Chess 

• Shyam Sundar – Grand Swiss (This or That?) 

• Perunovic – European Team Championship 

• Foisor – USA Women Championship (Tournament Review) 

• Moradiabadi – USA Championship (Tournament Review) 

• Ntirlis – The Damiano Defence (Theoretical Survey) 

• Prusikin – The Weak King (Instructive Lesson) 

• Perelshteyn – The Alekhine 4 Pawns Atack (Theoretical Survey) 

• Rogers – Asian Team Championship 1981 (Roger’s Reminiscences) 

• Griffin – Larsen – Byrne, Havana 1966 (From Informant Archives) 

• Barak Gonen – Correspondence Chess

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!

CHESS INFORMANT’S 157th ADVENTURE

OMNIPRESENT

CONTENTS:

• 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

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!

CHESS INFORMANT’S 156th ADVENTURE

MESMERIZED

CONTENTS:

• 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)

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!

CHESS INFORMANT’S 155th ADVENTURE

REJUVENATED

CONTENTS:

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)

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!

Dear readers, the book in your hands is the second part of Ivkov’s “Chess Parallels”, the last book of his extraordinary career of chess player and analyst.

In this tome Ivkov deals with endgames and various types of queenless middlegame positions (early endgames). The examples he selected are both entertaining and highly instructive. Many of those jewels are not widely known, so a diligent reader should benefit quite a lot by examining them with patience and willingness to learn. Of course, the book could serve you well as a source of reference, as well as a collection of extremely interesting and captivating positions to delve deep into and put your brain to some severe tests! Either way, you are guaranteed to have a lot of fun and to pick up bits of chess wisdom on your journey through this book.

We hope that you will find as much enjoyment reading this book as we experienced ourselves editing it for your pleasure, since you are now well acquainted with Ivkov’s thought process and mastery by absorbing the material from “Chess Parallels I&II”

Learn from the legacy of one of the most talented players to ever grace the chess world.

All elements of the game explained in an easy-to-digest and highly entertaining fashion.

Dear readers, it is both our solemn duty and exceptional honour to present you a collection of Ivkov’s instructive explorations on various chess themes. In this book you will find a great number of intriguing anecdotes casting a new light on some of the greatest chess players of all time, and some lesser known heroes of our bellowed game. Also, this book can serve you as an inspiration to investigate a bit deeper in the areas of strategy, planning and tactics learning chess in the “good, old way” unpolluted by the excessive engine usage. Finally, you can simply browse through the material and enjoy solving numerous riddles, studies and puzzles, picking up bits of chess wisdom along the way.

We hope that you will find as much enjoyment reading this book as we experienced ourselves editing it for your pleasure.

CHESS INFORMANT’S 154th ADVENTURE

ECLIPSE

CONTENTS:

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)

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!

CHESS INFORMANT’S 153rd ADVENTURE

GRANDEUR

CONTENTS:

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)

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!