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New In Chess
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About New In Chess
For the history of New in Chess we have to go back to 1968, when Willem Andriessen decided, with a few chess friends, to start publishing a Dutch chess magazine. It was an extremely modest beginning, with no more than 16 to 20 pages per issue, and no big chess names amongst the contributors, although they were all enthusiastic and hardworking. We had the good fortune, however, that the inception of Schaakbulletin virtually coincided with the emergence of Jan Timman as a chess player, and it was not long before we were joined by Timman, who went on to establish his name as an excellent annotator.
Shortly afterwards, other Dutch chess players swelled our ranks, notably Hein Donner. It was through his insistence that the magazine's formula changed drastically. In the beginning, `Schaakbulletin´ was little different from other magazines, containing mainly games, analyses and news. Under Donner's influence the written word got more and more important. He himself produced a great number of top-class columns and articles, and together with the interviews by journalist Max Pam and the chess curiosities of Tim Krabbé, they gave Schaakbulletin a unique identity. This `sandwich formula´ of text and analyses is still being used in New In Chess. Yet another characteristic of Schaakbulletin can also be found back in New In Chess, viz. the prominence of illustrations. From the very beginning of `Schaakbulletin´ we aimed for a slightly more playful chess magazine, with drawings, caricatures and a well thought-out cover. It's true that the editors sometimes received letters to the effect that `Instead of this illustration I would have preferred to see a chess game´, but generally speaking this formula went down very well indeed.
From 1972 on, we also started publishing a series of chess books, preferably, of course, game collections of our own contributors. From Timman we published Het Groot Analyse Boek and Schaakwerk, which were both translated into English, from Max Pam a number of interviews under the slightly confusing title `De Zuiverste Liefde is die van een Man voor zijn Paard´, from Donner the short story collection De Nederlander, and from Krabbé Schaakkuriosa, also translated into English, and `Nieuwe Schaakkuriosa´. Besides a series of tournament and opening books, we also published an Euwe biography and Hans Ree's first short story collection, magnificently entitled In Den Eersten Stoot Pat.
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