I wish I could post a photo. Yesterday I was walking up 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village and had to pause when I saw the current issue of New in Chess in the window of the newspaper/magazine store on the corner of 11th Street and 6th Avenue. I walked inside and there they were (unfortunately close to the adult magazine section at the rear of the store) but in the next section (near the tennis magazines, I think) there was a pile of Chess Life. I had never seen New in Chess at any other newstands in NYC or elsewhere. I suspect the proximity of this store to the Marshall Chess Club may be the reason New in Chess made it to the window. Any other sightings around NYC or the rest of the country?
Years ago the Borders on Ponce de Leon, in Atlanta, sold NIC. I have purchased NIC at Malaprop’s in downtown Asheville, NC, if I could get there before Jimmy King!
My daughter just started a subscribtion of New In Chess. From what I understand, there
are 8 publications per year. It is a fantastic publication, and a good companion to Chess
Life. It would be wonderful if more book stores carried both.
It would be even more fantastic if the cost of it were not $80 a year…but I agree, it is a very good publication. I really enjoy the NIC Yearbooks!
NEW IN CHESS is simply the finest chess periodocal in the world. I wish I could afford the subscription right now, but I can’t.
To mention it in the same breath as CHESS LIFE is like comparing the Mona Lisa to a fingerpainting.
That might be overstating it somewhat. I enjoy both, and like so many other periodicals, I read on other subjects, they both NIC, and CL, have their own value to me. I would miss either.
I also thought “Inside Chess” was a great paper. The diversity, of people involved was amazing.
Publisher: GM Yasser Seirawan
Editor: Michael Frannett,
Associate Editor: IM John Donaldson,
Editorial Advisor: GM Larry Christiansen,
European Office: WGM Yvette Nagel, and Margreet Kok.
It sort of reminds me of the Old (red covered) Chess Life & Review.
INSIDE CHESS was indeed a wonderful magazine; and Yasser has done a lot more for chess than I think he’s been given credit for.
For starters, and only for starters, he wrote what is hands-down the very best book on Bobby’s 1992 comeback match with Spassky. His account of his meetings with The Man are priceless.
NIC was sold at Hawley-Cooke bookstore in Louisville some time ago. It has become a BORDERS now, and carries the British magazine, CHESS MONTHLY.