New In Chess 2017/5: The Club Player's Magazine

This New In Chess 2017/5: The Club Player's Magazine is an English-language chess magazine issue that brings together tournament reports, interviews, analysis and training articles in one place. With 106 pages of coverage and instruction, it is aimed at club players and anyone who wants to stay close to top-level chess while continuing to improve their own game.

This issue puts Norway Chess 2017 in the spotlight, including Levon Aronian's memorable win over Magnus Carlsen. It also follows the next stages of the Grand Chess Tour in Paris and Leuven, where Carlsen again showed his class, even if not every round came easily.

What’s inside

Alongside the tournament reports, the magazine includes interviews, columns and training material, so it works just as well for the ambitious player as for the reader who follows the chess world for the stories as much as the results.

• an interview with Levon Aronian about Magnus, Tal, Yerevan, music and life away from the board
• Judit Polgar's column on Peter Leko
• Jonathan Rowson's piece on Garry Kasparov's book about matches against computers and the future of AI
• Maximize Your Tactics for players who want to work on tactical training
• Chess Pattern Recognition, including the quiet exchange sacrifice
• SOS: the Simple Scotch, a practical look at an opening weapon
• coverage of the World Team Championship, where China defended the title without a loss
• a report on the European Championship won by Matlakov

A magazine for current chess and training

The strength of New In Chess is its range. Alongside major names and headline events, you will also find lighter regular features such as NIC’s Café, Celeb64 and Just Checking, plus David Navara's letters and texts by Nigel Short. The result is not just a collection of analysis, but a broad picture of modern chess, from elite tournaments to the culture and curiosities around the game.

If you like having an English-language chess magazine to hand with current topics, strong names and material you can return to after the season has moved on, this is an easy one to keep on your shelf.

Key details

• Product type: chess magazine issue
• Issue: 2017/5
• Language: English
• Pages: 106
• Publication date: 15 July 2017
• Publisher: New in Chess
• ISBN: 9789056917333