American Chess Magazine - Issue #1

The success of the USA team at the Chess Olympiad comes under the spotlight in our first issue, as does Jeffery Xiong’s capture of the world junior title. There is also an in-depth preview of the world championship match between Carlsen and Karjakin in New York...

• 2016 CHESS OLYMPIAD
  US GOLDEN DREAM TEAM
• TROPHY FOR COACH D
  Q&A with IM John Donaldson,
  Captain of the US team
• TOP THREE US GAMES
  by GM Ivan Sokolov
• MY OLYMPIAD DIARY
  by GM Sam Shankland
• I AM SO PROUD OF TEAM USA!
  by GM Jeffery Xiong,
  2016 World Junior Champion
• 4th DIMENSION
  by GM Pentala Harikrishna
• A BITTERSWEET FINAL ROUND
  by GM Eric Hansen
• NEXT TIME I’LL TAKE ON h7!
  by GM David Smerdon
• I SPRUNG A TRAP FOR NAKAMURA
  by GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili

• THE BEST RESULT OF MY CAREER
  by GM Andrei Volokitin
• OUR VICTORY OVER RUSSIA 
  CATAPULTED US TO THE TOP, BUT...
  by GM Irina Krush
• THE WORLD TITLE MATCH
  CARLSEN VS KARJAKIN,
  New York 2016
• GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  by GM Boris Gulko
• CARLSEN & KARJAKIN IN 2016,
  A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
  by GM Mauricio Flores Rios
• A DAY WITH THE CHALLENGER
  IN MOSCOW
  By FM Josip Asik
• WHEN THE GOING 
  GETS TOUGH...
  by GM Vassily Ivanchuk
• NOVELTY ON MOVE 2!
  by GM Baadur Jobava

• ENDGAME TRENCH WARFARE
  by GM Jonathan Speelman
• MUSINGS OF AN AMERICAN GRANDMASTER 
  by GM Joel Benjamin
• CHESS.COM: BEHIND THE SCENES
  by IM Danny Rensch
• CHESS NBA LEAGUE!?
  Q & A With IM Greg Shahade
• BEAUTY OF CHESS COMPOSITION
  by Solving GM Piotr Murdzia, 
  seven-times World Solving Champion
• MILLIONAIRE CHESS
  by GM Mackenzie Molner
• TOURNAMENT REVIEW 
  August - October 2016
• WHERE GRANDMASTERS ADVISE YOUNG PLAYERS:
  TWICE US CHAMPION, GM Patrick Wolff