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The 16th World Senior Chess Championship was held 11–23 September 2006 in Arvier, Italy. Former World Chess Championship challenger and top seed GM Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) won the 126-player men's section 9.0/11. Competing in his first and sole Seniors' Championship, Korchnoi won his first four games, drew in the fifth round with Jānis ...
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 ...
He was once the youngest African American to become a US Chess Federation (USCF) National Master (NM), which he accomplished in 2010 at 12 years, 3 months, and 11 days old. [1] Colas was born to Haitian immigrants in White Plains, New York. He learned how to play chess from his father and entered his first national tournament at age seven.
Peak rating. 2486 (April 2009) Amon Simutowe (born January 6, 1982) is a Zambian chess grandmaster. He is the first grandmaster from sub-Saharan Africa [1] and the third black chess grandmaster in history, after Maurice Ashley [2] and Pontus Carlsson. [3] He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Texas at ...
No. 4 (October 2024) Peak ranking. No. 2 (October 2014) Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning three-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history. Born in Miami to Italian parents, Caruana grew up in Brooklyn.
2504 (July 2001) Website. mauriceashley.com. Maurice Ashley(born March 6, 1966) is a Jamaican and American chess player, author, and commentator. [1][2]In 1999, he earned the FIDE titleof Grandmaster(GM). [3] Ashley is well known as a commentator for high-profile chess events.[4] He also spent many years teaching chess.
There were also prizes for the best female and Arabic players, US$5,000 and US$3,500 for the first place in each category, respectively. Yu Yangyi, a 20-year-old Chinese chess prodigy, became the Qatar Masters Champion, [2] scoring 7.5/9; Anish Giri finished second and Vladimir Kramnik third, both scoring 7/9.
2022 →. The 2021 edition of the United States Chess Championship took place at the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, Missouri from 6 October to 20 October 2021. As with every United States Chess Championship tournament since 2014, it was a round-robin tournament. Twelve players were invited to compete.