NEW IN CHESS

 Dutch chess magazine. From 1984 Schaakbulletin, a publication by Willem Andriessen which started in 1968, had an English language sister publication called New in Chess, initially appearing twelve times a year, like virtually every other chess magazine. In order to have more room for long interviews and extensive tournament reports, however, it was decided in 1985 to have it appear eight times per year with issues containing between 90 and 100 pages. Rapidly, New in Chess has won itself a place in the international chess world. Top players regard it as their platform, and there is hardly a chess player of distinction who does not contribute to the magazine on a regular basis. Timman, already Schaakbulletin’s editor-in-chief, took up the same function in New in Chess, presently assisted by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, who does most of the interviews and tournament reports. Before the start of New in Chess in 1984, another periodical was set up to deal with the ever-developing stream of opening lines: the Yearbook series, for which the Dutch grandmasters Genna Sosonko and Paul van der Sterren were invited as editors-in-chief.  The Yearbook, subtitled The Chess Players Guide to Opening News, is a quarterly publication. Genna Sosonko is, after Van der Sterren’s departure in 2003, still in charge of the Yearbook, assisted by supervisor René Olthoff and a choice of contributors. New in Chess started by publishing the magazine and the Yearbook series, but in the meantime the range of publications has grown considerably. Over the last 10 years, a number of both English and Dutch language books were published. The most popular titles include The King (Pam/Krabbé), Finding Bobby Fischer (ten Geuzendam), Russian Silhouettes and The Reliable Past (Sosonko), Fischer World Champion (Euwe/Timman), Euwe, the Biography (Münninghoff),  the series Tactics in the Opening (van der Tak, Nijboer), and Power Chess with Pieces (Timman). [singlepic id=2568 w=150 h=150 float=left] In 2004 the New in Chess team started a new periodical, Secrets of Opening Surprises, appearing twice a year (also in a German language edition called Schach ohne Scheuklappen).  The editor Jeroen Bosch writes and inspires others to write a collection of tricky opening ideas, highly useful for players of all levels. New in Chess, published, eight times a year, has regular contributions from all the world’s best players. Vishy Anand, Alexei Shirov, Victor Kortchnoi, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Judith Polgar, etc. The magazine includes on-the-spot tournament reports, in-depth interviews, ‘Secrets of Opening Surprises’, chess history columns and endgames and studies.