New In Chess 2024/1

This New In Chess 2024/1 is an English-language issue of the respected chess magazine, combining tournament coverage, interviews, commentary and training material in one 108-page softcover edition. Published in the magazine’s 40th anniversary year, it brings together current chess journalism and practical content for readers who want to study the game more closely.

This issue is aimed at readers following modern tournament chess, club players and collectors of chess periodicals. It pairs top-level news with material that can help you analyse your own games, sharpen your tactics and stay in touch with the wider chess scene.

What’s inside this issue

The issue opens with Pep Talk, a piece on Magnus Carlsen’s meeting with Pep Guardiola. It also introduces new contributors Nate Solon and Christof Sielecki, together with an editorial note marking the magazine’s anniversary year.

There is substantial coverage of elite chess, including a report from Tata Steel Chess, where Wei Yi took the title, plus a longer feature on the Chinese grandmaster himself. Another article looks at how Magnus Carlsen won two consecutive world championship titles at the end of 2023.

The magazine is rounded out by interviews, columns and historical articles, with topics including Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Viktor Korchnoi. It also includes an explanation of odds chess, presented by Larry Kaufman.

Reading and training material

This issue goes beyond news and reporting. Nate Solon shows how to review your own game after it ends, Maxim Notkin contributes nine tactical exercises, and Christof Sielecki launches a new column with a model game from the Benoni structure.

You will also find opinion pieces and essays, including an article on greater inclusion in chess, a column by James Altucher and Jan Timman’s comment on the Candidates Tournament qualification race in Toronto.

Key details

• Product type: English-language chess magazine issue
• Title: New In Chess 2024/1
• Language: English
• Binding: softcover
• Page count: 108 pages
• Content: tournament reports, interviews, commentary, historical articles and training material
• Featured topics: Magnus Carlsen, Wei Yi, Tata Steel Chess, odds chess and the Benoni structure
• Context: published in the magazine’s 40th anniversary year