Catalan Powerbase 2025

The 936 selected annotated games provide excellent study material. Top players such as Aronian (1), Eljanov (2), Esipenko (2), Gelfand (4), Giri (7), Karjakin (1), Kasimdzhanov (1), Kramnik (2), Le Quang Liem (1), Nakamura (1), Navara (3), Ponomariov (2), So (2), Vidit (4), Wang Hao (1), Wojtaszek (2) have analysed their games, plus commentaries by Catalan experts such as Ribli (265) and Marin (105) and other top-class authors. In total there are 9,158 games, with a rating average of at least 2570 (excluding games with commentaries and the Grünfeld experts Dubov, Andreikin and Gelfand).