Saw an advert for it last night on tv, just picked up the first issue today, twice

http://www.eaglemoss.com/dc-chess/aus/index.asp

The book has info about Batman and his stories and such, as well as how to play chess.

I'd highly recommend subscribing to get the chess board as well. Here is a list of the pieces.

White
Batwoman
The Question
Red Robin
Batwing
Nightwing
Black Bat
Catwoman
Comm Gordon
Batman
Alfred
Robin
Azrael
Batgirl
Katana
Huntress
Black Canary

Black
Red Hood
Killer Croc
Ventriloquist
Two-Face
Black Mask
Riddler
Hush
Joker
Bane
Harley Quinn
Poison Ivy
Ra's Al Ghul
Scarecrow
Penguin
Mr Freeze
Man-Bat

Some you can find pictures of using Google image search, but they look pretty cool. I can see it will work out to be quite expensive in the end though, these things always are. $20 an issue, first one is cheaper as usual. I don't normally buy these magazine things, but the pieces alone look cool enough for me to buy a set, and a few doubles