It is no secret that, in recent years, magazines worldwide have been facing logistical and financial challenges. Publishers that fail to address these issues will struggle to control costs and produce high-quality content. At New in Chess, we are committed to balancing all concerns and have found a compromise that works for everyone.
Our traditional publishing structure comprised eight 100-page issues. From 2026 onwards, we will publish six issues, totaling 800 pages across them. This will reduce some obvious and some less obvious expenses. The most significant savings will be in shipping costs, which is especially important for an international magazine such as New in Chess, with subscribers in the United States, South Africa, Chile, Australia, Japan, and dozens of other countries.
These savings will enable us to invest in valuable new content. We will introduce a few new columns, most notably an expanded Tournament Roundup featuring analysis by a world-class player. This extended Roundup175
In this week’s episode of the New In Chess Podcast, my guest is Dutch grandmaster Loek van Wely. Loek is a good friend of the NIC podcast and he returns to talk about the chess event that is keeping us glued to our screens these days, the World Cup in Goa, India.  An 8-time Dutch champion, Loek can look back on a rich international career. He’s won tournaments all around the world and reached as high as 10th place in the world rankings. While Loek is still active as a player, his activities are more and more shifting to coaching and training. For instance, at last year’s Olympiad in Budapest, he was the coach of the Italian team.The World Cup started almost two weeks ago and will continue for close to two more weeks. There’s a lot at stake in Goa, as the top three finishers will qualify for the Candidates tournament in Cyprus next year (28 March-15 April). There’s also an attractive prize-fund. The winner takes home $120,000 and the numbers two and three, $85,000 and $60,000, respectively175
GM Daniel King publishes a variety of interesting chess materials on his YouTube channel PowerPlayChess, ranging from puzzles to book reviews. Recently, he interviewed our author Axel Smith about the second volume of his highly succesful book series, The Woodpecker Method 2! A shortened clip of the conversation can be viewed below, click here to watch the entire hour-long interview on YouTube!
Dear chess friends,
We have received many requests to reprint the books written by the late Daniel Naroditsky for New In Chess. We would love to do that, and we are talking to people close to Daniel to see how we can publish updated editions as soon as possible.
Daniel wrote Mastering Positional Chess when he was just fourteen, and its sequel, Mastering Complex Endgames, only two years later. New In Chess was very proud to publish these two wonderful, highly readable chess improvement manuals. As Daniel wrote in his foreword, 'The purpose of reading a chess book is not only to learn from it, but to enjoy it as well!'
However, Daniel himself preferred to write a new book and wanted to postpone reprinting the books from his youth until he had finished his new project, which unfortunately never materialised.
Please be patient with us. If we can reprint the books, we would like to do so with a beautiful new design and after checking the chess moves with a modern engine. We might want to include175
This week's episode of the New In Chess Podcast features the second part of a narration from The Essential Sosonko, a collection of chess portraits and personal stories authored by chess grandmaster Genna Sosonko. The subject of this week's story is Latvian international master Alvis Vitolins (1946-1977). Â
The second part of Vitolins' story goes deeply into his friendship with Karen Grigorian, who, like his brother Levon, was a strong chess master with several tournament wins in Armenia and Uzbekistan. Aside from this, Vitolins had few friends, especially outside of the chess world. It goes without saying that playing blitz with Karen was his favourite pastime.
This is where the story also takes a darker turn. Like Vitolins, Karen also struggled with his mental health in a time and place where such struggles were barely indulged, let alone understood. The tragic way both men met their end makes Genna's story about Vitolins a sad one, albeit one no less worth telling.
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