Sahovski Informator, Chess Informant Volume 2

199 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Reprint of the 1967 edition. Chess Informant published two issues per year in 1966 1990, three issues per year in 1991 2011 and four issues per year since 2012. Each issue offers several hundred games or fragments of games from master play, mostly annotated by the players themselves. A board of leading players selects the best games of each issue, and these are republished in the next issue often with more extensive annotations. Each issue since Chess Informant 5 has included a combinations section with problems from recent play. A similar endings section has also become a standard feature. The Chess Informant system of codes for the classification of chess openings, and its system of symbols have set the international standard for organizing chess information and communicating this information across language barriers. The system of codes is explained in ten languages on the front of each issue of Informant. Condition: Hinges, corners and spine ends rubbed, corners bumped and creased, some internal stains and notations to back wrapper, damp stained else a good copy.