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The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
Washington Open (golf) – an annual golf tournament held since 1922 at various locations in the state of Washington; Washington Open (tennis) – a Washington D.C. tennis tournament held each year since 1969; Other uses include: Washington Open DanceSport Competition – ballroom dancing competition held in Virginia. [1] Washington Open Chess ...
Julio Catalino Sadorra (born September 14, 1986) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. [1] He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017 where he was seeded 101 and where he lost to the 28th-seeded Super GM Maxim Matlakov, 0.5-1.5. [2] Sadorra has represented the Philippines at the Chess Olympiad since 2014.
The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament organized by the United States Chess Federation to determine the country's chess champion. [1] It is the oldest national chess tournament. [2] 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. [2]
Whitaker competed frequently and successfully in the Western Open during his college years and afterwards; organized by the Western Chess Association, this was often the nation's strongest-field annually-staged tournament in that era. [10] This tournament later became known as the U.S. Open Chess Championship. During this era, it was an elite ...
Anthony Saidy (born May 16, 1937) is an International Master of chess, [1] a retired physician and author. He competed eight times in the U.S. Chess Championship, with his highest placement being 4th. He won the 1960 Canadian Open Chess Championship. The same year, he played on the U.S. Team in the World Student Team Championship in Leningrad ...
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Finegold tied for first place in the 1994 (Chicago, Illinois) and 2007 (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) U.S. Open Chess Championships. He tied for first (and achieved a grandmaster norm) in the 2002 World Open (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), [6] [7] and also tied for first in the 2005 and 2008 National Open Chess Championships (Las Vegas, Nevada). He ...