U.S. Chess Championship

U.S. Chess Championship

The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size. From 1999 to 2006, the Championship was sponsored and organized by the Seattle Chess Foundation (later renamed America's Foundation for Chess) as a large Swiss system tournament. AF4C withdrew its sponsorship in 2007. The 2007 event was held (again under the Swiss system) in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Champions by acclamation 1845-1889

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Match Champions 1889-1935

Solomon Lipschutz is regarded as the first US Champion of this period, as a result of being the top scoring American at the 6th American Chess Congress, New York 1889. The following US Champions until 1909 were decided by matches.

*1889 - 1890 Solomon Lipschutz
*1890 - 1890 Jackson Showalter
*1890 - 1892 Max Judd
*1892 - 1892 Jackson Showalter
*1892 - 1892 Solomon Lipschutz
*1892 - 1894 Jackson Showalter
*1894 - 1895 Albert Hodges
*1895 - 1896 Jackson Showalter
*1897 - 1906 Harry Nelson Pillsbury
*1906 - 1909 Jackson Showalter
*1909 - 1935 Frank Marshall

Tournament champions 1936-

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ee also

*U.S. Women's Chess Championship
*U.S. Open Chess Championship
*U.S. Women's Open Chess Championship
*American Chess Congress

References

*citation | last1=Soltis | first1=Andy | author1-link=Andy Soltis | last2=McCormick | first2=Gene H. | title=The United States Chess Championship 1845–1996 | edition=Second Edition | year=1997 | publisher=McFarland | id=ISBN 0-7864-0258-2
*cite web | url=http://www.uschesschampionship.com/2006/news/pastuschampions.htm | title=Past US Champions | accessdate=2007-04-27
*cite web | url=http://members.aol.com/graemecree/chesschamps/us/ | title=Graeme Cree's US Chess Championship Page |
*cite book | author=Isaac Kashdan | title=History of the United States Chess Championship | year=1933 | publisher=Chess Review, November-December, 1933, reprinted in The Best of Chess Life & Review 1933-1960 | isbn=0671619861

External links

* [http://www.uschess.org/news/uschamp98/ 1998 Interplay US Championship] official USCF site


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