Gambit has recently issued a new World Champion Edition of Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess taking his career all the way up to game four of his World Championship match with Alexey Shirov in Teheran at the end of 2000. The reader gets 57 extremely well-annotated games, with an emphasis on concrete variations over more general prose observations. Anand is primarily an 1.e4 player so there are lots of games featuring the Sicilian and Ruy Lopez. Following the game section the reader is offered the opportunity to try to solve 30 combinations from Anand's play.

The reader will not find any crosstables or summary of all the events that Anand has played in. Instead results in major tournaments are incorporated into the biographical narrative that is placed in between games throughout the book. There are also no pictures except for the cover. Considering the considerable bulk of the book this is understandable, though regrettable.

Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess will not be placed in the pantheon of all time great game collections occupied by Fischer's Sixty Memorable Games, Kasparov's Test of Time and Alekhine's works, but the collaboration between Anand and John Nunn has produced a very solid and professional work.

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