American Chess - March 2018

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