Chess is better than BCM imho. To be fair, I've only seen BCMs from the late 90s, while i've seen Chess from the late 90s till today.   

In comparison to BCM, Chess actually has some reasonably annotated games. BCM on the other hand, has extremely light annotations which are hardly useful (at least, that was how they looked to me from the few issues i have seen in the late 90s). 

I also like that Chess has the occasional interesting opening article ( i still use Pert's 2. Bg5 v. the Dutch, and Dearing's fantastic article on "The Exchange Slav: Beating the Boredom").

The only thing that really annoys me about NIC Magazine, well two things really:

A) They don't have an index of the games they cover, which means that if you have been subscribing for awhile and wanted to find a particular game quickly its virtually impossible. I brought this to their attention years ago in one of their surveys to no avail.

B) An annual subscription is only 8 issues when it should be 12 issues like all other magazines, especially considering the amount of top level chess being played these days. Considering how expensive NIC Mag is, the least they could do is make it monthly.

Conclusion: If NIC now find themselves in trouble, then it's their own fault for bleeding consumers for years.

Toppy

Completely agree with last post re: Chess. Deeply offensive and wholly pathetic. BH Wood would be turning in his grave if he knew what had happened to his magazine.

Chessbase web site usually the same with the random female pics. 

All sooo schoolboyesque.  Sad, sad, sad. Does such crass sexism really represent the chess world? 

I've had NiC magazine for 10 years. I'm quite happy with it. I would change, I would probably go for Chessbase Magazine, rather than another printed magazine.

If German is no problem to you I have two further recommendations:

KARL (http://www.karlonline.org) a cultural chess magazin (4 times in the year)
Kaissiber (http://www.kaissiber.de) the special magazin from Stefen Bücker with a lot of opening discussion (outside of the main stream) and chess history

Regards, e2e4

Ok, thx for your opinions.
NIC is fine, even better than before. It's just that I want something else.
My German is ok, my Russian and French could be improved 

I'm just curious.  Is NIC folding, or has it changed much recently?  I thought it was still one of the most important and stylish updates available.  It would be a real shame if its quality or worse, its very existence was slipping.

After 10+ years of New in Chess magazine I'm looking for something new. Chess monthly and BCM look interesting. Could someone give his/her opinion on how they compare?
Or is there another english language magazine I'm missing?

(I'm from the Netherlands.)

Thx.
J. Balje