New in Chess Books

New In Chess

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About this app

Read chess books by New in Chess on your Android device! Browser through the many books and replay the games in the interactive game viewer.
New In Chess is a prize-winning publisher of chess books. The book publishing program focuses on training manuals, opening theory, chess history and chess entertainment. Bestselling authors are Victor Bologan, Jan Timman, Viktor Moskalenko, Jesus de la Villa, Charles Hertan, Artur van de Oudeweetering, Joel Benjamin, Evgeny Sveshnikov and many others.

Ratings and reviews

Let me start by saying I love NIC magazine. I was a magazine subscriber (and will be again soon). So, it pains me to say that this app does not even come close to NIC's usual high standards. We're talking problems with the very basics, the minimum you'd expect when trying to read something. First, there is no place that lists your purchased books, so you have to manually find the book you want to read on the store. There's no search, either, so you have to scroll through all the books in the store until you find the book you've already bought. Then, it doesn't save where you last left off, so you also have to scroll through the book to find where you left it. This alone is really bad - the book I bought lays out each chapter in full in one continuous page you just scroll through - there are no page numbers, it's just 1 page per chapter, making finding where you left off a task in itself. This is NOT a reader-friendly app. The saving grace not to get only 1 star is the useful built-in game viewer, and the content itself isn't bad (although this is more a reflection of the authors themselves). I am relieved I bought a book on a sale, I'd have been very disappointed if I'd paid full price (and chess books are not cheap) due to the extremely poor user experience. I hope they improve the app over time, it could be great with a little love and attention, but as it stands today, I'll stick with the printed books.

The app works ok and does what it's supposed to do, however it needs improving. I have only purchased one book so far and I have to scroll through all the books available in order to find the one I bought every time I want to read it. It needs to either have purchased books placed at the top, or have a search bar to find and sort them. There are already search bars for other categories, like openings, middlegames etc.

Really practical. As an ethusiast amateur, I'm always trying to improve and reading is my favorite way of learning. I can read / study while on the go or ar breaks at work. Additionally, there's the advantage of saving physical space as your library grows. I'm only ginving 4/5 because the built in board is a bit more little of what I'm used and because you can't get the pdfs of the books.

What's new

Bug fixes