Igor Stohl has selected 62 outstanding games from recent years and analysed them in painstaking depth. Here he presents his findings to chess enthusiasts, who will find the games entertaining and the annotations both instructive and illuminating.

Stohl is an outstanding theoretical expert, so the opening phase of each game reads like a lesson in the key strategic aspects of the opening played, with a critical survey of modern trends. The middlegame is dissected and the critical decisions subjected to scrutiny - we are invited inside Stohl's laboratory to join him in the quest for the truth. The endgame phase, if reached, is handled with similar erudition, with insights into the grandmaster´s approach to questions of technique. Following each game there is a discussion of the most important lessons to be learned.

Content:
005 Symbols

006 Introduction

008 1 Gelfand - Dreev, Tilburg 1993

013 2 Benjamin - Anand, Groningen PCA 1993

020 3 Karpov - Morovic, Las Palmas (1) 1994

025 4 Adams - Agdestein, Oslo (2) 1994

031 5 Yusupov - Dokhoian, Bundesliga 1993/4

037 6 Gelfand - Hertneck, Munich 1994

043 7 Kasparov - P. Nikolic, Horgen 1994

050 8 Karpov - Salov, Buenos Aires 1994

056 9 Timman - Topalov, Moscow OL 1994

060 10 Shirov - Piket, Aruba (4) 1995

066 11 Kasparov - Anand, Riga 1995

071 12 J. Polgar - Korchnoi, Madrid 1995

076 13 Kramnik - Piket, Dortmund 1995

082 14 Kramnik - Vaganian, Horgen 1995

088 15 Shirov - Leko, Belgrade 1995

093 16 Ivanchuk - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1996

098 17 Khalifman - Short, Pärnu 1996

104 18 Kasparov - Anand, Amsterdam 1996

111 19 Kasparov - Kramnik, Dos Hermanas 1996

117 20 Timman - Van der Wiel, Dutch Ch 1996

123 21 Svidler - Glek, Haifa 1996

128 22 Torre - Ivanchuk, Erevan OL 1996

134 23 Tiviakov - Vasiukov, Russian Ch 1996

141 24 Illescas - Andersson, Ubeda 1997

146 25 Shirov - Yusupov, Ter Apel 1997

153 26 Salov - Illescas, Dos Hermanas 1997

158 27 Bareev - Rozentalis, Pula Echt 1997

163 28 Gelfand - Kasparov, Novgorod 1997

171 29 Van Wely - Topalov, Antwerp 1997

180 30 Kramnik - Gelfand, Belgrade 1997

187 31 Lputian - Dlugy, New York Open 1998

194 32 Krasenkow - Wahls, Bundesliga 1997/8

198 33 Kramnik - Shirov, Cazorla WCC (9) 1998

205 34 P. Nikolic - Van Wely, Dutch Ch 1998

211 35 Nenashev - Georgiev, Recklinghausen 1998

217 36 Shirov - Lautier, Spanish Cht 1998

223 37 Van Wely - Morozevich, Elista OL 1998

228 38 Hracek - Shirov, Ostrava (3) 1998

236 39 Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999

244 40 Topalov - Kasparov, Linares 1999

252 41 Sadler - Krasenkow, Bundesliga 1998/9

258 42 J. Polgar - Adams, Dos Hermanas 1999

263 43 Kasparov - Short, Sarajevo 1999

274 44 Topalov - Leko, Dortmund 1999

281 45 Shirov - Nisipeanu, Las Vegas KO 1999

289 46 Kasparov - The World, Internet 1999

296 47 Anand - Leko, Linares 2000

301 48 Timman - J. Polgar, Malmö 2000

307 49 Lutz - Smirin, Saint Vincent Ech 2000

313 50 Anand - Khalifman, Shenyang WCup 2000

319 51 Avrukh - Dautov, Istanbul OL 2000

328 52 Shirov - Grishchuk, New Delhi KO 2000

340 53 Lautier - Shvidler, Biel 2001

353 54 Khalifman - Rublevsky, Kazan 2001

361 55 Leko - Adams, Dortmund 2002

370 56 Yuldachev - Gleizerov, Abu Dhabi 2002

381 57 Anand - Ponomariov, Linares 2003

391 58 Anand - Markowski, Bundesliga 2003/4

401 59 Kramnik - Anand, Dortmund (2) 2004

412 60 Ivanchuk - Volkov, Saint Vincent ECC 2005

422 61 Van Wely - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 2006

432 62 Aronian - Anand, Mexico City Wch 2007

444 Index of Players

446 Index of Openings

447 Index of Endgames