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Chess Informant (also known by its Serbian name Šahovski Informator) is a publisher of chess books and periodicals based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Founded by Aleksandr Matanović and Milivoje Molerović in 1966, Chess Informant is one of the longest standing and most renowned chess publishers today. It has evolved to meet the standards of 21st century chess with software and e-versions of its publications, yet one thing has remained constant: it has been a reliable source of quality information on all things chess related since its founding.
Chess Informant has delivered the world some of the most iconic names in chess publications. Its Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) has become a de facto standard for referring to and categorizing chess openings. Its namesake periodical, Chess Informant, collects and annotates hundreds of the latest and greatest grandmaster games four times a year. Before the age of databases and even now, Chess Informant has been an invaluable tool for chess professionals to stay up to date on the latest trends in theory. It has also been instrumental in improving chess notation with symbols for evaluations, novelties, and more.
Now, you can even use Chessable to study the games found in Chess Informant! Their latest edition, Chess Informant #148 (among other texts), has been adapted to the platform for studying all parts of the game. You can learn cutting-edge opening theory, strategy, endgame, tactics and more by analyzing the masterpiece games of the strongest players in the world, just as you can in so many of their marvelous works on Chessable:
