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The United States Chess Championship is an invitational classical chess tournament. Fabiano Caruana: 28 2800 2 Wesley So (defending champion) 26 2778 6 Samuel Sevian: 20 2654 91 Leinier Domínguez: 38 2760 14 Aleksandr Lenderman: 31 2607 >100 Ray Robson: 21 2669 62 Sam Shankland: 30 2714 28 John M. Burke: 19 2554 >100 Dariusz Świercz: 27 2647 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Carissa Shiwen Yip (born September 10, 2003) is an American chess player and the winner of the 2021 and 2023 U.S. Women's Chess Championship. [1] [2] In September 2019, she was the top rated female player in the United States [3] and the youngest female chess player to defeat a grandmaster, which she did at age ten.
The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by resignation. The game lasted for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 40 seconds.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
8 from 5 nations. Winning score. 8.5 points of 14. Champion. Viswanathan Anand. ← 2013. 2016 →. See also: World Chess Championship 2014. The Candidates Tournament 2014was an eight-player double round-robinchesstournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 13 March to 31 March 2014.