Chess Informant - Issue 160

Chess Informant - Issue 160CHESS INFORMANTS 160th ADVENTURE ***STEP AHEAD*** Presents 320 pages of the very best in chess: 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

Joel Benjamin shows how top players like Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand avoid Open Sicilians nowadays

GM Aleksandar Colovic sums up the big picture with an up to date assessment of the “new world order” in today’s chess environment

It is a hard struggle

Four Fischer games crammed into one Video and a wonderful theme too

13 Adrian Mikhalchishin - King's Fianchetto: Kasparov's Blitz Weapon

Re4 - RL 17

Forcing a Pawn Weakness

and finding it harder to compete in local tournaments with the Post-Fischer Generation

The DVD is shot in the style of one-on-one instruction

You suddenly realized that you have put all your pawns in the same colored squares as your opponent’s bishop

and this results in a double-edge struggle for the initiative

The story of Zeno the Rat by Charles Harness faithfully recreates the small chess club atmosphere of 60 years ago