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The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF [1]) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in The World Chess Federation (FIDE). USCF administers the official national rating system , awards national titles, sanctions over twenty national championships annually, and publishes ...
Chess in Wyoming refers to competitive chess played within the state of Wyoming. As of January 2025, Wyoming only has 84 active players registered with the United States Chess Federation, one of the lowest player counts in the United States. [1] The current USCF Wyoming state affiliate is the Wyoming Chess Association. [2] [3]
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the systems are used to ...
The 2024 edition of the United States Chess Championship took place at the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, Missouri from 10 October to 24 October 2024. As with every United States Chess Championship tournament since 2014, it will be a round-robin tournament. [1] Twelve players were invited to compete.
Chess players ordered by peak FIDE rating in 1970s Country Player Peak rating in 1970s Achieved 1 Bobby Fischer: 2785 1972-07 2 Anatoly Karpov: 2725 1978-01 3 Viktor Korchnoi: 2695 1979-01 4 Boris Spassky: 2690 1971-07 5 Bent Larsen: 2660 1971-07 Mikhail Tal: 2660 1973-07 7 Lajos Portisch: 2650 1973-07 8 Tigran Petrosian: 2645 1972-07 Lev ...
Rating World ranking 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 ...
The Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas.Hosted in part by the United States Chess Federation, the Pan-Am Intercollegiate is open to any team comprising four players and up to two alternates from the same post-secondary school (university, college, community college) in North America, Central America, South ...
This is a list of chess organizations. Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments. [1] The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [2]