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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 ...
Title. Grandmaster (2009) FIDE rating. 2400 (August 2024) Peak rating. 2563 (January 2006) Benjamin Philip Finegold (born September 6, 1969) is an American chess grandmaster and YouTuber / Twitch streamer. He had previously been nicknamed the "strongest International Master in the United States" until receiving his Grandmaster (GM) title in 2009.
This year's U.S. Open is at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club’s Course No. 2 in North Carolina. When is the U.S. Open? The tournament begins on Thursday, June 13, and the final round is scheduled ...
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 ...
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.
Enabling Act of 1802, authorizing residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio. Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory ...
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.