14 Annotated Karpov Games

The Best of Chess Informant - Anatoly Karpov is the title of the latest column by Zdenko Krnic at ChessCafe. Some 1600 of Karpov's games have appeared in the pages of Informant, and 14 of them received accolades as the best game of the Informant volumes in which they appeared.

This column includes each of these 14 games, with annotations, many by Karpov himself. Krnic quotes Karpov's coach Semen Furman, who describes the former world champion as having a "Natural gift for subtle positional feeling, masterly endgame play and technically accurate conduct of the game."