U.S. Chess Championship

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The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national 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.

1 Champions by acclamation 1845-1889
2 Match champions 1889-1935
3 Tournament champions 1936-
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Champions by acclamation 1845-1889

Years	Champion	Notes
1845-1857	Charles Stanley	Defeated Eugène Rousseau in a match in 1845
1857-1871	Paul Morphy	Won the first American Chess Congress in 1857
1871-1889	George Henry Mackenzie	Won the 2nd, 3rd and 5th American Chess Congress

[edit] Match champions 1889-1935

First "Official" US Champion, as a result of being the top scoring American at New York 1889.

[edit] Tournament champions 1936-

#	Year	Winner	Notes
1	1936	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky
2	1938	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky
3	1940	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky
-	1941	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky	Match victory over I.A. Horowitz
4	1942	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky	An uncorrected scoring error by the director allowed Reshevsky to tie for first with Isaac Kashdan. Reshevsky won a playoff match against Kashdan 6 months later.
5	1944	Denker, ArnoldArnold Denker
-	1946	Denker, ArnoldArnold Denker	Match victory over Herman Steiner
6	1946	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky
7	1948	Steiner, HermanHerman Steiner
8	1951	Evans, LarryLarry Evans
-	1952	Evans, LarryLarry Evans	Match victory over Herman Steiner
9	1954	Bisguier, ArthurArthur Bisguier
-	1957	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky	Match victory over Arthur Bisguier
10	1957/8	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
11	1958/9	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
12	1959/0	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
13	1960/1	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
14	1961/2	Evans, LarryLarry Evans
15	1962/3	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
16	1963/4	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
17	1965/6	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
18	1966/7	Fischer, BobbyBobby Fischer
19	1968	Evans, LarryLarry Evans
20	1969	Reshevsky, SamuelSamuel Reshevsky
21	1972	Byrne, RobertRobert Byrne	After playoff 9 months later against Samuel Reshevsky and Lubomir Kavalek
22	1973	Kavalek, LubomirLubomir Kavalek Grefe, JohnJohn Grefe
23	1974	Browne, WalterWalter Browne
24	1975	Browne, WalterWalter Browne
25	1977	Browne, WalterWalter Browne
26	1978	Kavalek, LubomirLubomir Kavalek
27	1980	Browne, WalterWalter Browne Christiansen, LarryLarry Christiansen Evans, LarryLarry Evans
28	1981	Browne, WalterWalter Browne Seirawan, YasserYasser Seirawan
29	1983	Browne, WalterWalter Browne Christiansen, LarryLarry Christiansen Dzindzichashvili, RomanRoman Dzindzichashvili
30	1984	Alburt, LevLev Alburt
31	1985	Alburt, LevLev Alburt
32	1986	Seirawan, YasserYasser Seirawan
33	1987	Benjamin, JoelJoel Benjamin de Firmian, NickNick de Firmian
34	1988	Wilder, MichaelMichael Wilder
35	1989	Dzindzichashvili, RomanRoman Dzindzichashvili Rachels, StuartStuart Rachels Seirawan, YasserYasser Seirawan
36	1990	Alburt, LevLev Alburt	Knockout tournament
37	1991	Kamsky, GataGata Kamsky	Knockout tournament
38	1992	Wolff, PatrickPatrick Wolff
39	1993	Shabalov, AlexanderAlexander Shabalov Yermolinsky, AlexAlex Yermolinsky
40	1994	Gulko, BorisBoris Gulko	The only person to have held both the US and Soviet championships
41	1995	de Firmian, NickNick de Firmian Wolff, PatrickPatrick Wolff Ivanov, AlexanderAlexander Ivanov
42	1996	Yermolinsky, AlexAlex Yermolinsky
43	1997	Benjamin, JoelJoel Benjamin
44	1998	de Firmian, NickNick de Firmian
45	1999	Gulko, BorisBoris Gulko
46	2000	Benjamin, JoelJoel Benjamin Shabalov, AlexanderAlexander Shabalov Seirawan, YasserYasser Seirawan
47	2002	Christiansen, LarryLarry Christiansen
48	2003	Shabalov, AlexanderAlexander Shabalov
49	2005	Nakamura, HikaruHikaru Nakamura	Tournament was played in 2004, but called the 2005 Championship, for legal reasons
50	2006	Onischuk, AlexanderAlexander Onischuk
51	2007	Shabalov, AlexanderAlexander Shabalov
52	2008	Shulman, YuryYury Shulman

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Soltis, Andy & McCormick, Gene H. (1997), The United States Chess Championship 1845–1996 (Second Edition ed.), McFarland, ISBN 0-7864-0258-2
Past US Champions. Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
Graeme Cree's US Chess Championship Page.
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 0671619861.