New In Chess for Android

You will lose all your old issues! Paid or free.

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.

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.

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 ???

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 Mobile 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 Mobile. 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.