The Chess Informant Library

Chess Informant 168 — Signal Light

Paperback · 264 pages · 2026

A memorial tribute to Jan Timman, the FIDE Candidates tournaments, Prague, Saint Louis and Reykjavik 2026, rook endgames, plus 200 games classified by ECO code.

Chess Informant 167 — Speed-up!

Paperback · 248 pages

Wijk aan Zee 2026, the Doha rapid & blitz championships, "Michael's Musings" and "Rogers' Reminiscences", plus 190 games by ECO code.

Chess Informant 166

Paperback · 280 pages · 2025

The 2025 European Championship, FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, Saint Louis Rapid, the 2025 U.S. Championship, plus 200 games by ECO code.

Chess Informant 165 — Echoes

Paperback · 288 pages · 2025

FIDE Women's World Cup 2025, Tashkent, Biel 2025, Danny's Chess Diary, correspondence chess, plus 200 games by ECO code.

Chess Informant 164 — Freestyle!

Paperback · 2025

The 2025 Women's World Championship match, Carlsen's Freestyle win in Paris, endgame studies, plus 204 games by ECO code.

Chess Informant 163 — Treasures

Paperback · 2025

A tribute to Boris Spassky, Wijk aan Zee and Prague 2025, a Ruy Lopez repertoire for White, plus 201 games by ECO code.

Chess Informant 162 — Manoeuvre!!

Paperback · 296 pages · 2025

The Ding–Gukesh World Championship match, the European Championship, the Budapest Gambit, plus 200 games by ECO code.

Chess Informant 161 — Olympic Spirit

Paperback · 320 pages

British chess, the Serbian and Dutch championships, the Najdorf, the 1983 Candidates semi-finals, plus 287 games and fragments.

Chess Informant 160 — Step Ahead

Paperback · 320 pages

Candidate moves, the King's Indian, the Austrian Bundesliga, man vs. machine, plus 355 games and fragments.

Chess Informant 159 — Vigorous

Paperback · 320 pages · 2024

Wijk aan Zee 2024, the King's Indian Gligorić System, the Alekhine Exchange, Hastings, plus the traditional best game and novelty of the previous volume.

Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures

Hardcover · 560 pages

1,636 annotated games of 20 moves or fewer, 1560–2014, organized by ECO code.

Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures — Games since 2014

Hardcover · 620 pages

1,220 annotated miniatures from 2014–2021, ordered by ECO code — the newer volume, stands on its own.

Anthology of Chess Problems 2345

Hardcover · 420 pages

2,345 chess problems in one hardcover volume.

Encyclopedia of Chess Openings B — Part 1

Hardcover · 484 pages

Volume B of the ECO, part one.

Encyclopedia of Chess Openings B — Part 2

Hardcover · 424 pages

Volume B of the ECO, part two.

Small Encyclopedia of Chess Openings

Hardcover · 672 pages

Every opening of the ECO system in a single hardcover volume.

The Risk Assessment in Chess

IM Ranko Szuhanek · Hardcover · 232 pages

Chess as a living model of decision-making under uncertainty: every move opens new possibilities and risks counterplay. Szuhanek shows how to assess a position, foresee scenarios and decide under time pressure — skills that carry over to management and any work with incomplete information. 20 colour charts.

Beating the Najdorf — Rare Lines

IM Ranko Szuhanek · Hardcover · 262 pages

A complete guide through the Najdorf jungle for Black against White's rarer 6th moves — 6.h3 (now popular at every level), 6.a3 and 6.Qd3. Deep, practical analysis with many improvements for both sides and a clear lean toward Black.

Selected Endings

Paperback · 272 pages

705 hand-picked endgames from Chess Informant's decades-long archive, shown as they were first published, with the original analysis and context. The first volume of the collector's series for the Informant's 60th anniversary.

The Match of the Century

Hardcover · 260 pages

Belgrade 1970, USSR vs. the Rest of the World: 20 of the world's best players, five World Champions, four rounds and 40 hard-fought games. Relive the match through the words of its participants and the leading journalists of the day — a revised, extended 50th-anniversary edition by Douglas Griffin and Igor Žveglić.

Match Tournament 1948 — Keres

Paul Keres · Hardcover · 260 pages

All 50 games of the 1948 match-tournament that made Botvinnik the first Soviet World Champion, annotated by Paul Keres for the practical player. A new English translation of his 1949 classic — a favourite of Kasparov and Gelfand — with historical context from the Soviet press and Botvinnik's memoirs.

Let Me Ask You, Do You Know?

IM Nikola Karaklajić

A classic that still teaches and entertains: 40 essential endgame lessons, 12 lessons on endgame tricks and motifs, plenty of practical examples and carefully chosen exercises. Generations learned endings from it; this new edition is engine-checked and as enjoyable as ever.

Old Wine in New Bottles

GM Mihail Marin · Hardcover · 384 pages

Marin invites you to the games of the classics: the same brilliant ideas and the same mistakes keep returning in the same kinds of positions. Learn to think along classical lines — at the board you are alone with your opponent, without an engine.