United States Open Chess Championship

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The United States Open Chess Championship ( US Open Chess Championship for short , in the chess scene simply the US Open , German  "Open Chess Championship of the United States " ) is an open chess tournament that has been held in the USA every year since 1900. It should not be confused with the United States Chess Championship , an invitation tournament that has been held since 1936.

history

The US Open was organized in its first years by the Western Chess Association , then, from 1934 to 1938, by its successor, the American Chess Federation . From 1939 until today the tournament is hosted by the United States Chess Federation (USCF) . At first, when the number of participants was still small, it was held as a round-robin tournament . From 1947, due to the increase in the number of players, the Swiss system was introduced. After that, in the 1960s and 1970s, 12 or 13 laps had to be completed, for which around two weeks were scheduled. From around the year 2000 onwards there are mostly nine rounds in nine days.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the number of players continued to rise, for example in 1953 from 181 to 1957 with 184 and 1961 with 198, then in 1963 to 266 participants. There was a record participation in 1983 with 836 players, including the two-time vice world champion Viktor Korchnoi , who won it together with GM Larry Christiansen . From around the year 2000 the attractiveness of this US championship sank somewhat and the number of players stabilized at around 400 to 500 people. The prize money has also changed since the 1960s. In 1962, the first place was worth $ 1000  . In 2016, the total prize pool was $ 40,000, with the winner receiving $ 8,000.

Tournament winner

# year place winner Remarks
1 1900 Excelsior, Minnesota Louis Uedemann
2 1901 Excelsior, Minnesota Nicholas MacLeod
3 1902 Excelsior, Minnesota Louis Uedemann
84 1983 Pasadena, California Larry Christiansen , Viktor Korchnoi
100 1999 Reno (Nevada) Alex Yermolinsky , Alexander Goldin , Eduardas Rozentalis ,
Alexander Shabalov , Gabriel Schwartzman , Michael Mulyar
101 2000 Saint Paul, Minnesota Alex Yermolinsky
102 2001 Framingham, Massachusetts Aleksander Wojtkiewicz , Joel Benjamin ,
Alexander Stripunsky , Fabian Döttling
103 2002 Cherry Hill, New Jersey Gennadi Zaichik , Evgeni Najer
104 2003 los Angeles Alexander Shabalov
105 2004 Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Alexander Onischuk , Rodrigo Vásquez , Aleksander Wojtkiewicz ,
Ildar Ibragimov , Andranik Matikozian , Renier González , Marcel Martinez
106 2005 Phoenix (Arizona) Vadim Milov , Joel Benjamin
107 2006 Oak Brook (Illinois) Yury Shulman
108 2007 Cherry Hill, New Jersey Boris Gulko , Sergey Kudrin , Ben Finegold , Alexander Shabalov ,
Michael Rohde , Michael Mulyar , Anton Paolo Del Mundo
109 2008 Dallas Alexander Shabalov , Rade Milovanović , Enrico Sevillano
110 2009 Indianapolis Dmitry Gurevich , Sergey Kudrin , Alex Lenderman , Alex Yermolinsky , Jacek Stopa , Jesse Kraai
111 2010 Irvine (California) Alejandro Ramirez
112 2011 Orlando (Florida) Alex Lenderman
113 2012 Vancouver (Washington) Manuel León Hoyos , Dmitry Gurevich , John Daniel Bryant
114 2013 Madison (Wisconsin) Joshua Friedel , Mackenzie Molner , Julio Sadorra
115 2014 Orlando (Florida) Conrad Holt
116 2015 Phoenix (Arizona) Alexander Shabalov
117 2016 Indianapolis (Indiana) Alexander Shabalov
118 2017 Norfolk Alex Lenderman
119 2018 Middleton Timur Gareyev
120 2019 Orlando (Florida) Illja Nyschnyk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Open Chess Championship (1st 1900, no break, 118th 2017) (English) accessed December 4, 2017
  2. ↑ US Open Tournament Index, accessed December 4, 2017
  3. ↑ US Open Tournament Index, accessed December 4, 2017