New In Chess 4+

Name: New In Chess
Rating: 3.5 (31 reviews)
Author: New In Chess

New In Chess

- 3.5 • 31 Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

It's easier than ever to enjoy New In Chess, a must-read magazine for all chess aficionados. You can read the magazine, tap on the chess games, and replay all the annotated games on your phone, tablet, or PC! The app is FREE and includes free access to the complete issue 2023#6 with the report on Magnus Carlsen’s historic win of the World Cup in Baku.

FEATURES
• 8 issues a year
• FREE issue: 2023#6 available as a free download (108 pages!)
• Chess game viewer included!
• You can replay all annotated games of the magazine on the built-in board
• Download each issue to your device to read without an internet connection
• Switch easily between reading and replaying chess games
• Store and access back issues
• Purchase single issues using In-App Purchase
• Subscribe from within the app and register your details with us to receive our newsletter

ABOUT NEW IN CHESS MAGAZINE
New In Chess magazine is a premier international chess publication with eight issues per year. It offers on-site tournament reports, game annotations by top grandmasters, interviews, in-depth reports, training for club players, exclusive columns by Jan Timman, Matthew Sadler, and Judit Polgar, historical features, iconic photography, book reviews, and exercises.

Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Judit Polgar, Ju Wenjun and Hou Yifan are regular contributors. Remmelt Otten is the editor-in-chief.

Club players read New In Chess in 116 countries.

SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
Subscribe yearly (8 issues) for $99,99 or buy a single issue for $14,99.
If available, you will be charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate as defined by iTunes
Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase

SUBSCRIBERS’ AUTOMATIC-RENEWAL FEATURE:
Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal, as stated above, within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.

Current subscribers may not be canceled during the active subscription period, but you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase.

May 9, 2024

Version 2.21.8

Bug fixes

3.5 out of 5

31 Ratings

Best effort to date

First, let's be clear: New In Chess is the best chess magazine out there for the seriously player or fan, and this production is the best effort at producing a chess magazine by anyone I've seen, yet.

The interface makes it easy to follow the text of the annotations as well as the game position, at least on the iPad. It makes wise use of the available screen, and (quite importantly, for me) doesn't dictate the position you have to view it from, allowing you to hold the device in either position, portrait or landscape.

The typography is readable, almost everything about it is as good or better than the rest of the electronic chess pubs out there.

Almost everything? Yes. They persist in the unfortunate belief that taking a picture of a printed page is a satisfactory means of electronically publishing a story. This, in Tony Miles' famous words, is "utter crap." Luckily their printed magazine believes in narrow columns, for the most part, so there's little horizontal scrolling needed after you zoom the story text to readable size. That is all that saves this from a much harsher review.

Excellent magazine, above average presentation.

Lots of good potential ruined by poor execution

I've postponed this review for over a year, hoping NiC would iron out enough bugs to allow me to give their app more than a single star, but to no avail. The great benefit of reading a chess magazine on an iPad should be the ease of enjoying the games themselves, but this is the glaring shortcoming of the New in Chess app: the game viewer is one of the poorest on the iPad. If you enlarge the board, all the game annotations disappear. It's not for lack of space; half the screen is simply blank. If you wonder what an engine reveals about a position, you'll get no help here, as NiC hasn't deigned to provide one. Even worse, games are often entered incorrectly, so they become impossible to follow in the viewer. (By "often" I do not mean a majority of the games, but I do mean enough games that I'm no longer surprised when I reach one.) The apps for each of the other chess publishers are great. Many of the apps put out by independent programmers are great. New in Chess has really done a shameful job on this one.

The latest update is a huge step backwards

The app is almost useless now. It clearly indicates which issues I own, but there is no way for me to track which issues I’ve read or which issues I was in the middle. I would have to track that information by hand on a sticky note.

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Seller

Interchess B.V.

Size

22.8 MB

New In Chess 4+

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Best effort to date

Lots of good potential ruined by poor execution

The latest update is a huge step backwards

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Data Not Collected

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