New In Chess leaves the Chess.com family and proudly joins two other chess book publishers, Quality Chess and Everyman. The new company will be a dynamic, independent chess publisher, aiming for up to fifty new titles a year and maintaining a catalog of nearly a thousand printed books.
The news was posted by Remmelt Otten, Publisher at New In Chess, on the LinkedIn network.
Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard will be the CEO and owner of the new company, which will be home to award-winning authors such as Garry Kasparov and Judit Polgar, Matthew Sadler and Axel Smith, Yasser Seirawan and Charles Hertan, Boris Gelfand and R.B. Ramesh, Joel Benjamin and Sam Shankland, Jan Timman and Genna Sosonko.
As a small, independent chess publisher, we have an interesting company history. We were founded in 1968 (Dutch only) or 1984 (English).
New in Chess and Everyman were acquired by the Play Magnus Group in 2021, and then became part of Chess.com following its acquisition of the Group in December 2022.
In recent years, our print book catalog has helped Chessable launch its fascinating chess learning platform, converting our author content into courses and videos.
But Chess.com and Chessable are 100% online – and we still print a lot of books and magazines. We love the smell of ink and we enjoy reading a beautifully produced book into the wee hours of the night.
The online and print business models are different. It makes sense to be a separate company and a partner where we can both grow the game of chess.
