Cover worn, interior pages yellowing. Otherwise, tight & clean. This picks up where the "Chess Player" series left off---the only thing "NEW" that I see is a new multi-color cover and maybe a more selective set of games (lightly annotated). Whereas the last volume (16) of "The Chess Player" ended with tournaments of 1977, the "NEW" series commits to 3 issues a year. So this volume 1 covers tournaments of early 1978. 392 games. 191 pages.