New In Chess 2009/1 is brand new and full of interesting stuff:

-- Vladimir Kramnik: My side of the story
-- exclusive annotations by Topalov, Kamsky, Aronian, Grischuk,
Radjabov, Bu Xiangzhi, Gashimov, Petrosian, and many others
-- Chrilly Donninger on the sheikh who helped him build
a multi-headed chess monster
-- Garry Kasparov on the perils of patronage
-- Jonathan Rowson's endgame anxiety
-- the Athonite monk inside Maya Chiburdanidze
-- Hans Ree: FIDE's regulating mania
-- Ten Geuzendam and Timman on Dresden
-- world number one Veselin Topalov on his only(!) rival
-- and much more!

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