About New In Chess

New In Chess is a prize-winning publisher of chess books and its flagship periodical: New In Chess magazine.

The book-publishing program focuses on training manuals, opening theory, chess history and chess entertainment. Bestselling authors include Matthew Sadler, Victor Bologan, Jan Timman, Viktor Moskalenko and many others.

New In Chess magazine is read by club players in 116 countries. New In Chess magazine is the premier international chess publication with eight issues a year, offering on-site tournament reports, game annotations by top grandmasters, interviews, in-depth reportage, training for club players, exclusive columns by Jan Timman, Matthew Sadler and James Altucher, historical features, iconic photography, book reviews and exercises. Regular contributions by Anish Giri.  

"Game Changer ... is a phenomenal book."
International Master John Bartholomew, YouTube
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Books by New In Chess

New In Chess has published more than 200 chess books
Prize-winners and bestsellers:
  • Game Changer by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan about the chess engine AlphaZero won the English Chess Federation 2019 Book of the Year, the most prestigious chess book award in the world. It also won the Averbakh-Boleslavsky Award 2019, the book award of the FIDE, the International Chess Federation
  • 100 Endgames You Must Know by Spanish GM Jesus de Villa is an international bestseller, helping thousands of chess players to finally understand the endgame
  • The Complete Chess Swindler by David Smerdon won the English Chess Federation 2020 Book of the Year Award
  • Power Chess for Kids by Charles Hertan has been on the chess books best-sellers list for the last five years
  • Chess Strategy for Club Players by Herman Grooten won the ChessCafe 2009 Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for The Guardian 2009 Chess Book of the Year award
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Timman’s Titans is the most informative, interesting and revealing book on the world champions covered, both as people and chess players.
The Judges of the ECF Book of the Year Award
The Judges of the ECF Book of the Year Award
on Timman’s Titans
Quite inspirational. I was thinking at several points during the game [in Round 11 of the 2019 Tata Steel Chess Tournament]: how would AlphaZero have approached this?
Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
on Game Changer
One of the most original chess books the judges have seen for a number of years...both serious and highly entertaining at the same time.
The Judges of the ECF Book of the Year Award
The Judges of the ECF Book of the Year Award
on Move First, Think Later
In today’s hectic chess world, it is easy to forget that the game we play now is built on foundations established many years ago. A biography of a player — perhaps the most talented who ever lived — who influenced chess enormously is this year’s Book of the Year 2025.
The Judges of the ECF Book of the Year Award
The Judges of the ECF Book of the Year Award
on The Real Paul Morphy