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The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion.
It is the oldest national chess tournament. The event originated as a challenge match in 1845, but the champion has been decided by tournament play under the auspices of the USCF since 1936. The tournament has fluctuated between a round-robin tournament and a Swiss system. From 1999 to 2006, the championship was sponsored and organized by the Seattle Chess Foundation (later renamed America's Foundation for Chess) and featured a larger body of competitors, made possible by the change to a Swiss-style format. After the Foundation withdrew its sponsorship, the 2007 and 2008 events were held in Stillwater, Oklahoma, still as a Swiss system, under tournament director Frank K. Berry. The Saint Louis Chess Club has hosted the championship since 2009. Since 2014, the championship has used a round-robin format. The event is often a Zonal tournament for the United States Chess Federation, providing qualifier spots to the Chess World Cup.
As of 2023, twelve players are invited to compete: the reigning US champion, as well as the respective winners of the US Open Chess Championship and the US Junior Championship. The remaining players are chosen by highest invitational rating, in addition to one organizer wildcard. Fabiano Caruana is the current US chess champion.
By acclamation (1845–1891)
Match format (1891–1935)
George Henry Mackenzie died in April 1891 and, later that year, Max Judd proposed he, Jackson Showalter and S. Lipschütz contest a triangular match for the championship. Lipschütz withdrew so Judd and Showalter played a match which the latter won. A claim by Walter Penn Shipley that S. Lipschütz became US Champion as a result of being the top-scoring American at the Sixth American Chess Congress, New York 1889, is refuted in a biography of Lipschütz.
The following US Champions until 1909 were decided by matches.
Round-robin format (1936–1998)
Swiss format (1999–2013)
Round-robin format (2014–present)
Players by number of championships
See also
US Women's Chess Championship
US Open Chess Championship
US Women's Open Chess Championship
American Chess Congress
Notes
References
Soltis, Andy; McCormick, Gene H. (1997). The United States Chess Championship 1845–1996 (2nd ed.). McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0248-2.
Isaac Kashdan (1933). History of the United States Chess Championship. Chess Review, November–December, 1933, reprinted in The Best of Chess Life & Review 1933–1960. ISBN 0-671-61986-1.
External links
Official US Chess Championship Site
St. Louis Chess Club, St. Louis, Missouri
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- John Donaldson
- Claude Bloodgood
- Kejuaraan Catur Dunia 1972
- Dorsa Derakhshani
- Andy Woodward (pemain catur)
- Olimpiade Catur ke-44
- Mick Schumacher
- Daftar permainan yang dikembangkan oleh Eletronic Arts
- Daftar julukan kota di Amerika Serikat
- US Chess Championship
- U.S. Women's Chess Championship
- World Chess Championship 2024
- World Chess Championship
- U.S. Masters Chess Championship
- U.S. Open Chess Championship
- World Chess Championship 2023
- Fabiano Caruana
- Chess.com
- 2024 United States Chess Championship
