Top Ten Games of Informant 95

1.	DREEV, A. - BAREEV, E.	329	7	10	2	9	8	9	2	-	47
2.	VOLOKITIN, A. - NAKAMURA, H.	198	8	3	-	5	10	10	10	-	46
3.	BACROT, E. - RUBLEVSKY, S.	127	9	8	4	8	7	-	-	10	46
4.	BRUZON, L. - CARLSEN, M.	105	10	5	-	3	3	3	9	8	41
5.	GALKIN, A. - YEMELIN, V.	177	6	4	10	7	4	2	6	-	39
6.	GRISCHUK, A. - KAMSKY, G.	253	-	9	-	6	9	8	-	7	39
7.	DREEV, A. - MINASIAN, ART.	56	4	-	-	10	5	5	5	2	31
8.	VAN WELY, L. - RADJABOV, T.	405	-	7	9	4	6	1	-	-	27
9.	JOBAVA, BA. - BELIAVSKY, A.	367	-	-	6	-	2	-	7	-	15
10.	NI HUA - MCHEDLISHVILI, M.	376	-	-	5	1	-	7	-	-	13

It's interesting that not one of the ten winners is from among the top 15 players in the world. Grischuk is the highest ranked player on this list.

By contrast, the nine best games of Informant 54 (nothing special about this issue, just had it handy) consisted of 3 Kasparov wins (#1), 2 Karpov wins (#2), 1 Short win (#4), 1 Anand win (#5) and 2 Kamsky wins (=#7). And the losers were equally impressive: Kasparov once, Karpov twice, Short three times, Gelfand (#6), Shirov (=#7), Bareev (#11).

That is what I expect to see as the best games in Informant - fighting chess by the best players in the world. That's what made these guys not just the highest rated, but the best. Nowadays, the highest rated players are just not producing any interesting games. That's why Kasparov and Karpov were the kings of chess, and these guys are just schmucks. No wonder interest in professional chess is waning so drastically even as the number of players is increasing.