New in Chess

NIC; New In Chess) is a Dutch chess magazine; published since February 1984 in Amsterdam in English 8 issues a year. The editors-in-chief are Dirk Jan ten Huizendam and Jan Hendrik Timman (since 1984).

The magazine pays the main attention to international chess life, publishes the games of major competitions with commentary, materials on the history of chess, various interviews and so on. Its most informative sections are "The Art of Analysis", "Portrait" and bibliography. Collaborates with many leading chess players from various countries. It has an annual supplement of the same name (collections of chess games of a reference-theoretical character), the sections of which are devoted to a certain opening or an actual variant, which by the time of publication have become the subject of theoretical polemics. The prefaces to the sections cover the most important directions of chess theory development; the games are commented, as a rule, by one of the opponents

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