For libraries
American Chess Magazine for your library
The U.S. chess magazine your patrons ask for, from club players to grandmasters. Order through EBSCO, WT Cox or your own agent, or request a free printed sample copy first.
At a glance
Everything your serials desk needs
- Frequency
- 6 issues a year
- February, April, June, August, October, December
- Institutional subscription
- $124.95 / year
- U.S. libraries, print, postage included
- ISSN
- 2572-2808
- Print edition
- Published since
- 2016
- 52 issues to date
- Digital edition
- EBSCO Flipster
- For your patrons, through your EBSCO account
- Format
- Full color, written by grandmasters and chess journalists
Free sample copy
See it on your shelf before you order
We mail a printed issue to your periodicals desk, free, so you and your patrons can judge the magazine in hand. Tell us how you order and we will make sure the title is ready in that channel.
- • Shipped by USPS from our North Carolina warehouse
- • No obligation and no follow-up calls, just one email from us
- • Libraries running a chess club or program: say so, we can add a few extra copies
How to order
Through the agent you already use
Nearly every library subscription reaches us through an agency. Renewals then run on your usual schedule, with nothing extra to manage.
EBSCO
Print subscriptions through EBSCO Subscription Services, and the digital edition on EBSCO Flipster for your patrons.
WT Cox Information Services
Listed in the WT Cox title database; order and renew through your usual WT Cox account.
Your own subscription agent
Any agency can order for you. Our title record carries the ISSN below, and we answer agency rate requests every year.
Direct from us
Email a purchase order and we will invoice you. We accept checks, cards and bank transfers, and we mail directly to your periodicals desk.
Subscription terms
- • Subscriptions start at any time with the current issue and can be back-started on request.
- • One-year subscriptions; no extra postage within the U.S.
- • Claims for missing or damaged issues are accepted for one year.
- • Back issues: $27.99 per copy while stocks last; complete runs for special collections on request.
- • Print only. Digital access for library patrons is through EBSCO Flipster.
Five wins, three honorable mentions, and Chess Journalist of the Year
The Chess Journalists of America named our founder and Editor-in-Chief, FM Josip Asik, Chess Journalist of the Year, a first for the magazine. Alongside it, ACM writers took home four more category wins and three honorable mentions.
Josip Asik
Editor-in-Chief, American Chess Magazine · 2026 CJA Chess Journalist of the Year
2026 winners from American Chess Magazine
- •Chess Journalist of the Year — Josip Asik, Editor-in-Chief, American Chess Magazine
- •Best Interview — Pete Tamburro, “How Chess Saves Lives,” Interview with Danny Rensch, ACM #49
- •Best Tournament Report (Nat/Intl) — John Burke, “Five Star Fabi,” ACM #48
- •Best Personal Narrative by a Junior — Zoey Tang, “No Stepping Back!,” ACM #47
- •Best Review — Carsten Hansen, “Fresh Leaves from the Bookshelf,” ACM column
Honorable mentions — Story of the Year — Jon Jacobs, “The Long-Forgotten Master Behind Chess’s Climactic Checkmate,” ACM #49; Best Column — Sarunas Sulskis, “The Magnificent 3,” ACM column; Best Analysis — Spyridon Kapnisis, “When Modern Means Classical,” ACM #49.
On the shelf at
Libraries that subscribe
- • Los Angeles Public Library
- • San Francisco Public Library
- • Sonoma County Library
- • Mechanics' Institute Library, San Francisco
- • Arcadia Public Library
- • Baldwinsville Public Library
- • State Library Victoria, Melbourne
And in correctional facility libraries across the country, by mail through their subscription agency.
Why chess belongs in the library
A magazine patrons keep coming back for
Chess programs are among the best-attended activities libraries run, for children and adults alike. American Chess Magazine gives those readers tournament reports, interviews, annotated games and instruction from grandmasters, in a print edition that is read cover to cover and kept on the shelf.
Questions, a purchase order or a complete run for your collection: write to office@acmchess.com.
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