I got the new Kindle Fire today.  First thing I did was make my Wi-Fi connection and log into chess.com.  I easily put in my username and password (it now remembers it) and got connected.  I can rotate the new Kindle horizonal or vertical and I see a nice color display.  Looks very nice.  With the touch screen I can maneuver anywhere on the page and any page.  I can zoom in and out with a tap or spreading my fingers on the screen.  I have music in the background playing and have over 100 pdf chess books and chess magazines installed and can read.  I can tap on forums and it takes me right there.  The chess diagrams look normal and I can increase the size or shrink it with just a touch.  8 GB storage space with 5 GB free Cloud space.  I'm impressed.  Any others out there with the new Kindle Fire who want to share their experiences?

The apps that came with it are great.  Free Pandora Internet radio, connect to your email, ESPN scoreboard ( I can keep up with you Minnesota Vikings), comics, pulse news, Weather Channel set up for local area, audible books, Quickoffice (reads docs, Excel, powerpoint), gallery for pictures and videos, facebook connection, etc.  1 month Prime free for movies, etc.  All under $200.  Cheapest iPads are $500 ($300 more).

Are there any apps for it for chess (pgn reader, etc)?

here i am on a viking ship.  i am a prisoner.  i reach out and feel my chains.  i hear the oars slapping into the cold baltic sea.  before me is a three day old bowl of gruel which is just beyond reach.  i know there is "fire" on the upper deck for i smell the food that nogrd, the viking captain, has for dinner. 

i shuffle my bare feet on the cold icy wood under my feet.  i "see" no images except that the memory of the green hills of corsica where i played as a youth before the northmen came and stole me away.

i would "kindle" a fire if i could and burn this ship down if i could and take all the vikings into the cold empty depths of the sea of which my life is but a small wave. 

same experience

what...you are also an oar slave or you spent hundreds of dollars on a plastic book that one day you will leave on the subway and leave behind all your "books" ?...better to be a slave to the evil vikings than a slave to a plastic device you will one day drop, lose or have stolen or will get erased when it passes thru an x-ray at an airport.

It's getting cold....brrrrrrrrr!!!1

I use the Kindle fire for chess.com on the go and it works great. I also opened the Android market by insalling software into the tablet (I rooted it). Amazon is not against people hacking the system and it does not void the warranty. The chess.com app works fast but if I go to the actual chess.com webpage it goes a little slower.

Yes, the Kindle Fire has a chess.com app and about a dozen chess programs.  I have Rival Chess, Chess Presso, Chess King, Chess V, iChess for Android, and other chess apps.  There is also chess puzzles, SparkChess, Genesis Chess, Chess with Mobile, etc.  There is also 80 chess videos. including Roman's Lab, Train Yourself Chess, Polgar's chess videos, Karpov on Fischer, Russian School of Chess, Kasparov videos, Searching for Bobby Fischer, etc.  With Prime, a lot is free.