Our new book 1000 TN!! collects the best of the best 1,000 theoretical novelties from Chess Informants 11 to 110 and provides an adventurous journey through the development of chess openings during the last forty years. Moreover, in every ECO theoretical line, we add the latest word on the state of theory.

In the "contest" of TN's who actually won the game was of lesser importance than whose idea contributed the most to chess theory. There are more than sixty players among the winners, with current world champion Viswanathan Anand at the top of the list with nine novelties, only one ahead of former world champion Anatoly Karpov.

In all there were seventy jurists during this time. Jan Timman is the longest serving member with seventy-five volumes; compare this, for example, to Anand's fifty-three, Larsen's thirty-five, Uhlmann's twenty-one, or Botvinnik's eighteen voting appearances.

Quote by Jan Timman:

"Chess Informant" has been a leading source of information for decades. In the past the emphasis has been mainly on openings, resulting in a tradition that a jury judges most important novelties of each volume. I have been part of this tradition for decades. It is important to establish which are the most important novelties, since it shows the development in various openings. I have always-and I still am! - been doing this work with pleasure".