American Chess Magazine - Issue No. 5

008 SHOWDOWN IN ST. LOUIS!
GM Mackenzie Molner
016 READERS' VOICES
020 MAGNUS THE KING AMONG MERE MORTALS
GM Ivan Sokolov
030 CALIFORNIA SUN OVER A FOGGY BRITISH ISLAND
IM Michael Brown
040 DO CHESS COLUMNISTS PLAY CHESS?
GM Ivan Sokolov
044 AAGAARD'S ALL-ROUND TRAINING
GM Jacob Aagaard


World Cup
050 How Levon Aronian was first ac ross the line!
FIVE MOMENTS OF TRUTH
GM David Smerdon
058 ONE MOVE THAT ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK
GM Sam Sevian
052 LETS PLAY CAT AND MOUSE!
GM Vassily Ivanchuk
054 MUST-WIN
GM Alex Ipatov

072 SHE'S MIT'S HIDDEN GEM
WIM Yuanling Yuan
076 DETERMINED TO SUCCEED
Chris Wainscott
080 LONDON SYSTEM
FM Dennis Monokroussos
088 A WHOLE BAG OF POSITIONAL TRICKS
GM John Fedorowicz
092 THE NOTORIOUS "GRANDMASTER DRAW"
GM Michael Adams and GM Baskiran Adhiban
096 ONE MAN PARADE
GM Michael Rohde
100 MATING MOTIFS IN THE ENDGAME
GM Alex Fishbein
106 FRESH LEAVES FROM THE BOOKSHELF
FM Carsten Hansen
110 DATABASE WAR
Jon Edwards
113 MAN v MACHINE
IM Danny Rensch
114 MUSINGS OF AN AMERICAN GRANDMASTER
GM Joel Benjamin
120 CHESS PARENTS SURVIVAL GUIDE
Ryan Velez
122 "DADDY, CAN I SHOW YOU THE CHESS GAME?"
Scott Miller
124 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CARLSEN
IM Praveen Balakrishnan
128 25 QUESTIONS FOR GM LEV ALBURT
Pete Tamburo
134 In Memoriam: GM William Lombardy
GOODBYE GADFLY
GM Robert Hungaski
136 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
146 IGOR'S CHESS DOUBLES
IM Igor Khmelnitsky


147 TOURNAMENT REVIEW
152 WHERE GRANDMASTERS ADVISE YOUNG PLAYERS
GM Peter Heine Nielsen