CLEARANCE - Chess Informants - ISSUE 124

This is the Periodical the Pros Use and all the entertainment and fun a true chess fan could want is inside: the games, the openings, the variations, the combinations and endgames – all furnished with the creative insights of our grandmaster contributors, supported by an international team of experienced chess editors. Chess Informant brings tons of valuable resources for months of reading pleasure, all written in easy-to-understand English and presented with the learning curve in mind! No. 124, the Summer 2015 edition include Morozevich’s analysis of the controversial Giri Variation of the Taimanov Sicilian; Harikrishna’s discoveries of present-day examples of romantic chess; Berg on the Dragon Sicilian from both sides of the chessboard; and Mihail Marin on the newly revitalized Italian Game, established in 1620! Ivan Sokolov keeps a close watch on the world champion Magnus Carlsen while Flores Rios details the trail of victories scored by Hikaru Nakamura. The final of the World Cup is covered from three angles, strategic, tactical and theoretical, by GMs Sulskis, Roiz and Leitao. Women’s World Championship is enthusiastically conveyed by Keti Arakhamia-Grant as is the high-class Dubai Open by the winner Dragan Solak. Endgame specialist Karsten Mueller provides us with tips on how to handle opposite-coloured bishops, while Kotronias presents the latest installment of his work on 2.c3 Sicilian. And on top of all this, we have selected 200 of the most significant games played from March-June 2015, annotated by the players themselves or our in-house team of grandmasters.