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Pages in category "Chess clubs in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE , which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments.
In 1997 the name of tournament was changed to the World Youth Chess Championships. The under 8 category was first introduced in 2006. 1974 – Pont-Sainte-Maxence, France, 2–13 July – The first World Cadet Championship was an Under-18 event, organised by the French chess authorities. Thirty players took part in an 11-round Swiss.
In the 2000s, new national championships held include the National Youth Action championship (held in November) and the U.S. Junior Chess Congress (held in February). Unofficially, the record for most individual national championships is 13, shared by Harutyun Akopyan and Asuka Nakamura. [7] [8]
In 2007, Sarah Chiang received the silver medal at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Turkey. [6] In 2008, Darwin Yang was the nation's top 11-year-old. [ 7 ] In 2009, more than a dozen of the USCF's 58-member World Youth team were also members of the DCC. [ 8 ]
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The North American Youth Chess Championship (NAYCC) is an annual chess tournament for participants under 18, first held in 2004 in Boca Raton, Florida. [1] The tournament has 6 age brackets, in two-year increments, from U8 (under 8) to U18. For each age bracket, there is an open championship and a separate championship for girls.
The US Chess Center is an American non-profit organization that teaches at-risk youth in the Washington, D.C., area how to play chess. The center runs chess tournaments and brings in high level chess players to speak to students. The Center is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD, [1] and its president is David Mehler, an attorney. [2]