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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster

International Grandmaster

The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

 Jan Timman

Jan Timman

Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West"...

 and Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam. It contains notes by top players and chess prodigies

Chess prodigy

Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. Chess is one of the few sports where children can compete with adults on equal ground; it is thus one of the few skills in which true child prodigies exist...

 on their own games. Typical contributions are from players such as Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...

, Vishwanathan Anand, Péter Lékó

Péter Lékó

On the way to winning the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2005, Lékó defeated Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. The moves were:...

, Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...

, Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...

, and Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Karjakin

Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for both the youngest International Master, eleven years and eleven months, and grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months...

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New In Chess also publishes Yearbooks four times per year that offer opening surveys and theoretical articles. NIC uses its own classification system for chess opening

Chess opening

A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game. Recognized sequences of opening moves are referred to as openings as initiated by White or defenses, as created in reply by Black. There are many dozens of different openings, and hundreds of named variants. The Oxford Companion to...

s that continues to evolve in the effort to keep abreast of novelties. For example, FR 16.6 is the French Tarrasch with 10...g5 and a "Survey" by Tim Harding

Tim Harding (chess)

Timothy David Harding is a prolific chess player and author with particular expertise regarding correspondence chess. He published a correspondence chess magazine Chess Mail from 1996 to 2006 and has authored "The Kibitzer," a ChessCafe.com column from 1996...

 appeared in Yearbook 32 (1994). NIC also publishes other chess books.

Books

• Jürgen Kaufeld and Guido Kern, Grandmaster Chess Strategy, New In Chess 2011, ISBN 978-90-5691-346-5.

• Yochanan Afek
  Yochanan Afek
  Yochanan Afek is an Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter. He described pioneering Israeli master Moshe Czerniak as "my teacher"...
  
   and Emmanuel Neiman, Invisible Chess Moves, New In Chess 2011, ISBN 978-90-5691-368-7.

• Karsten Müller
  Karsten Müller
  Dr. Karsten Müller was born November 23, 1970 in Hamburg, West Germany. He is a German chess Grandmaster. He earned the Grandmaster title in 1998 and a PhD in mathematics in 2002 at the University of Hamburg. He placed third in the 1996 German championship and second in the 1997 German...
  
  , Matthias Wahls and Hannes Langrock, The Modern Scandinavian, New In Chess 2011, ISBN 978-90-5691-344-1.

• Dimitri Komarov, Stefan Djuric and Claudio Pantaleoni, Chess Opening Essentials 1, New In Chess 2008, ISBN 978-90-5691-203-1.

• Dimitri Komarov, Stefan Djuric and Claudio Pantaleoni, Chess Opening Essentials 2, New In Chess 2009, ISBN 978-90-5691-269-7.

• Dimitri Komarov, Stefan Djuric and Claudio Pantaleoni, Chess Opening Essentials 3, New In Chess 2009, ISBN 978-90-5691-270-3.

• Dimitri Komarov, Stefan Djuric and Claudio Pantaleoni, Chess Opening Essentials 4, New In Chess 2010, ISBN 978-90-5691-308-3.

• Max Euwe
  Max Euwe
  Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...
  
   and Jan Timman
  Jan Timman
  Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West"...
  
  , Fischer
  Bobby Fischer
  Robert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author...
  
   World Champion!, 2002, ISBN 978-90-5691-095-2.

(ECF

English Chess Federation

The English Chess Federation is the governing chess organisation in England and is affiliated to FIDE. The ECF was formed in 2004 and was effectively a re-constitution of the extant governing body, the British Chess Federation , an organisation founded in 1904...

 Book of the Year winner)

• Leo Jansen
  Leo Jansen
  Leo Jansen was a Dutch artist known for his portraits.Born in Holland, moved to Indonesia when he was ten. There in the tropics, he began his craft by sketching bronze-skinned Indonesian girls for leisure. He returned to the Netherlands to study at the Academy of Art, to refine his growing mastery...
  
   and Jerry van Rekom, The Black Lion, New In Chess 2008, ISBN 978-90-5691-257-4.

• Steve Giddins
  Steve Giddins
  Stephen Giddins is an English chess player and writer. He graduated from Keble College, Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1982. He went on to become a FIDE Master and wrote a number of chess books, some of which have also been translated into German...
  
   and Jeroen Bosch, The Chess Instructor 2009, New In Chess 2008, ISBN 978-90-5691-247-5.

• Evgeny Bareev
  Evgeny Bareev
  Evgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
  
   and Ilya Levitov, From London to Elista, New In Chess 2007, ISBN 90-5691-219-2.