{"id":7620,"date":"2018-04-28T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T09:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvlchess.com\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2022-04-06T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:45:36","slug":"best-of-mvl-in-chess-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mvlchess.com\/en\/2018\/04\/28\/best-of-mvl-in-chess-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Best of \u00bb MVL in Chess Informant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chess Informant<\/em> is a real institution for chess players. The older ones will remember that during the pre-computer era, the Informant was awaited like the Messiah. This compilation of the semester best games was indeed the main source of informations on the latest developments of opening theory.
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Born in 1966, the Informant has based its reputation on a double system, today internationally recognized : the sorting of openings according to a 500-entry code (from A00 to E99), and the wordless annotation of games with specific chess symbols. Thanks to this ingenious system, the language barrier was no longer an obstacle, and the Chess Informant<\/em> company products, of which the Informant is a front rank one, were in a position to be sold worldwide.
\nIt is true that nowadays, you can access all informations live in a mouse click. But the Informant managed to survive this evolution. Switching from a 2 per year to a 4 per year rythm, going digital – but still keeping the paper – the famous Serbian publication diversified its contents and easily crossed the decades. New columns have been added, including a \u00ab Best of \u00bb, launched in 2017, which offers a complete focus on an elite player.<\/p>\n

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Maxime\u2019s very first appearance in the Informant ; a game against Fressinet played in 2004, and published in issue #91.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In issue #135 that just came out, it\u2019s on Maxime that the Informant has chosen to cast light, through a selection of his best games, his excellent combinations, his most important theoretical novelties, and his remarkable endgames\u2026
\nHere are positions from each of these four sections, with the kind permission of Chess Informant editorial board :<\/p>\n

Maxime considers this game to be one of his best in 2017 ; it was played in January during the Gibraltar festival : (link to the article in french, http:\/\/www.mvlchess.com\/2017\/02\/12\/gibraltar-un-roc-pour-les-echecs<\/a> ).
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