Happy to hear that GChess could be adding the older NIC Yearbooks.  That would be a nice development indeed!

@mattchess - Thanks for the information.  I must have overlooked Attacking Chess: The French previously because it now appears among the results when I repeated the search.  Your comment about the possibility of an incomplete library of Everyman books seems to be accurate.  Play the French again wasn't in the search results, even though it's available as an e-book. 

Limiting the accessible NIC Yearbook surveys to those that are available electronically makes sense.  That's basically low-hanging fruit for GChess since the can just use or convert NIC's files.  As you note, we'll have to see if any of the earlier Yearbooks become available.

@mattchess - Do you have access to the entire run of NIC Yearbook surveys on GChess?  I recently searched the position after 7.Qg4 in the mainline French Winawer on GChess and only got hits going back to 2016.  Searching the same position on the New in Chess website revealed several surveys in the years 1990 - 2012 that don't show up in the GChess results.  Perhaps I'm limited in what I see since I don't have a premium membership. 

Something similar happens when I look for the same position in GChess' list of Everyman books.  Such obvious examples as John Watson's Play the French and Simon Williams' Attacking Chess: The French don't appear in the search results.

Works for me too. A great feature !

Apparently all 12-section (Gold Plus) subscribers should now be able to access the ChessPublishing material on gchess Let me know here if there are any problems

GMTonyKosten wrote on 01/17/22 at 14:58:48:


Yes please - that would be great.  Much appreciated.

mattchess wrote on 01/15/22 at 16:09:57:


Yes, they're charging for the feature, you will have to take out a separate subscription with them if you want to access the ChessPub games on their software. I can ask about getting a special deal for ChessPublishing subscribers if anyone is interested, although I suppose you already have all the ChessPublishing games anyway, so there is little point?

I have full access to gChess - but when I select the ChessPub tab it gives me this message:

"Chess Publishing Subscription needed
Please buy a standalone Chess Publishing Subscription to use this feature.

$9.99 per month or $99.00 per year

The Chess Publishing Subscription can work without a GChess subscription, and gives you access to all 30k annotated ChessPublishing games."


There is not actually anyplace to link the subs - I assumed they did it with an email cross-reference.  Hopefully they get back to me soon.  I've been enjoying the integration of gChess and ChessPub.