Logs out; bought 2022, can’t open!
Bad bad bad.
Stop the useless updates
I hate the new update. I do not want stockfish. I liked the other version better where you could analyze a position on a different app, make ur own moves and understand why they are good or bad. Stockfish does not allow you to do that; not even an evaluation bar.
Don’t update!!!!!!!!!!!
You will lose all your old issues! Paid or free.
The latest update is a huge step backwards
The app is almost useless now. It clearly indicates which issues I own, but there is no way for me to track which issues I’ve read or which issues I was in the middle. I would have to track that information by hand on a sticky note.
Terrible
This upgrade is so bad and disappointing. It forces one to sign out and then sign back in every time to view the magazine. Otherwise it assumes you want to buy the issue even if you have a subscription. Furthermore, attempting to download issues for off-line viewing is a non-starter and just doesn’t work. I wish I could reinstall the previous version. Unhappy
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All purchases disappeared
Thought this was a great app. Then, after purchasing a bunch of old issues, they all disappeared. It’s a shame, still a great magazine, but can’t recommend buying anything.
Worthless
When app updates you lose all magazines you purchased, I sent and email, and they tell me do I remember the magazine I purchased ? Shouldn’t all my purchased magazines be recorded on my account no it’s not. Even if I do remember they are not on the app. Is this a bank robbery on line ???
Best Chess Magazine available anywhere
Fantastic content. Play through the games on your device. Excellent on an iPad.
The only thing preventing this from a five-star review is the display on an iPhone XS. Magazine renders/feels like an Instagram photo, which is disappointing when there is so much screen real estate to make use of.
The only thing preventing this from a five-star review is the display on an iPhone XS. Magazine renders/feels like an Instagram photo, which is disappointing when there is so much screen real estate to make use of.
Lots of good potential ruined by poor execution
I've postponed this review for over a year, hoping NiC would iron out enough bugs to allow me to give their app more than a single star, but to no avail. The great benefit of reading a chess magazine on an iPad should be the ease of enjoying the games themselves, but this is the glaring shortcoming of the New in Chess app: the game viewer is one of the poorest on the iPad. If you enlarge the board, all the game annotations disappear. It's not for lack of space; half the screen is simply blank. If you wonder what an engine reveals about a position, you'll get no help here, as NiC hasn't deigned to provide one. Even worse, games are often entered incorrectly, so they become impossible to follow in the viewer. (By "often" I do not mean a majority of the games, but I do mean enough games that I'm no longer surprised when I reach one.) The apps for each of the other chess publishers are great. Many of the apps put out by independent programmers are great. New in Chess has really done a shameful job on this one.
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Great Magazine
Love it!
Good product, good app
Highly recommended.
Convenient and easy to use
This app makes your chess time very productive, fun and you can access it everywhere you go. I have been subscribed for more than ten years to the hard copy magazine but this digital version makes it more convenient
Easy access to the great content of NIC
iPad version is a little more convenient to view, but the iPhone version is great too.
Cannot restore purchases made on older iPhone
I bought 2016 #4 on an iPhone 6, and when I got an iPhone SE, couldn't download my purchase. Keeps rejecting my login info. Changed password but still no luck.
Naive and simple
Extremely simple and perhaps naive in that there is potential for a lot more. One can go over game notation and variations with ease. Occasional bugs while signing in, but otherwise solid.
Clean format, needs engine
Very easy to navigate NIC magazine and follow games and variations. Needs an integrated engine as in Forward Chess application.
Terrific app
This NIC app, as well as the NIC Books and files app are really first rate and leverages learning with the design that lets you easily walk through games in the magazine or in books. It's also a breeze to play through variations on the screen. The only thing missing - which would make this five stars for me - is a built-in analysis engine or a feature that would let me import stockfish, shredder or Fritz from my iPad to run analysis on moves not covered in the text. Please consider adding this - as an in-app purchase, if necessary.
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Great
Allows you to see games one move at a time. Top level analysis. Information about who's who past and present.
New In Chess
Awesome!!
The greatest game
It is easy to navigate the best written chess magazine in the world on this app.
