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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 ...
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 ...
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), [5] [6] and also tied for first in the 2005 and 2008 National Open Chess Championships (Las Vegas, Nevada). He ...
The following is a list of notable people and natives of Cherry Hill, New Jersey . Rick Folbaum (born 1969), co-anchor for WNYW-TV New York's weekday 6 pm newscasts. Attended Cherry Hill High School West [55] Vince Papale (born 1946), former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles.
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.
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 ...
This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").
2534 (August 2024) Peak rating. 2646 (October 2002) Peak ranking. No. 16 (July 1994) Gregory Kaidanov ( Russian: Григорий Зиновьевич Кайда́нов, Grigoriy Zinovyevich Kaydanov; born 11 October 1959) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster. He was inducted into the United States Chess Hall of Fame in 2013.