American Chess Magazine - 05 Winter 2017/2018

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SHOWDOWN IN ST. LOUIS! GM Mackenzie Molner ISLE OF MAN MASTERS: MAGNUS THE KING AMONG MERE MORTALS GM Ivan Sokolov CALIFORNIA SUN OVER A FOGGY BRITISH ISLAND IM Michael Brown DO CHESS COLUMNISTS PLAY CHESS? GM Ivan Sokolov AAGAARD’S ALL-ROUND TRAINING GM Jacob Aagaard WORLD CUP: How Levon Aronian was first across the line! FIVE MOMENTS OF TRUTH GM David Smerdon ONE MOVE THAT ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK GM Sam Sevian LET’S PLAY CAT AND MOUSE! GM Vassily Ivanchuk MUST-WIN GM Alex Ipatov
SHE’S MIT’S HIDDEN GEM: AGATA BYKOVTSEVA WIM Yuanling Yuan DETERMINED TO SUCCEED Chris Wainscott LONDON SYSTEM FM Dennis Monokroussos A WHOLE BAG OF POSITIONAL TRICKS GM John Fedorowicz THE NOTORIOUS “GRANDMASTER DRAW” GM Michael Adams and GM Baskiran Adhiban ONE MAN PARADE GM Michael Rohde MATING MOTIFS IN THE ENDGAME GM Alex Fishbein FRESH LEAVES FROM THE BOOKSHELF FM Carsten Hansen DATABASE WAR Jon Edwards MAN V MACHINE IM Danny Rensch
MUSINGS OF AN AMERICAN GRANDMASTER GM Joel Benjamin CHESS PARENT’S SURVIVAL GUIDE Ryan Velez “DADDY, CAN I SHOW YOU THE CHESS GAME?” Scott Miller IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CARLSEN IM Praveen Balakrishnan 25 Questions for GM Lev Alburt INTERVIEW Pete Tamburo Tribute to GM William Lombardy GOODBYE GADFLY GM Robert Hungaski A RISING NORTH STAR IN CHESS! Bill Broich, Patrick Tang, Jim Freerksen, with annotations by GM Vladimir Georgiev, IM Sean Nagle, and FM Sam Schmakel IGOR'S CHESS DOUBLES IM Igor Khmelnitsky TOURNAMENT REVIEW WHERE GRANDMASTERS ADVISE YOUNG PLAYERS GM Peter Heine Nielsen