Pan American Chess Championship
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The Pan American Chess Championship, also American Continental Championship is an individual chess tournament organized since 1945. It is often a qualifier for the FIDE World Cup.
First pan American championships (1945 and 1954)
The first Pan American Chess Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July – 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows:
- 1. Samuel Reshevsky File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States 10.5,
- 2. Reuben Fine File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States 9,
- 3. Hermann Pilnik File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 8.5,
- 4. Israel Horowitz File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States 8,
- 5. Isaac Kashdan File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States 7,
- 6. Héctor Rossetto File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 6.5,
- 7–8. Weaver Adams File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States, Herman Steiner File:Flag of the United States.svg United States 5.5,
- 9–10. Walter Cruz File:Flag of Brazil (1889–1960).svg Brazil, José Joaquin Araiza File:Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg Mexico 5,
- 11. Jose Broderman File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba 3.5,
- 12. Herbert Seidman File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States 3,
- 13. Joaquin Camarena File:Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg Mexico 1.[1]
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The second championship was held in 1954 in Los Angeles and was an open tournament.[2]
Winners
Pan American Championship
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# Year City Winner 1* 1945 Hollywood File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg Samuel Reshevsky (USA) 2* 1954 Los Angeles File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg Arthur Bisguier (USA) 3* 1958 Bogotá File:Flag of Argentina.svg Oscar Panno (ARG) 4* 1963 Havana File:Flag of Cuba.svg Eleazar Jiménez (CUB) 5* 1966 Havana File:Flag of Cuba.svg Eleazar Jiménez (CUB) 6* 1968 Cárdenas File:Flag of Cuba.svg Silvino García Martínez (CUB) 7* 1970 Havana File:Flag of Cuba.svg Eleazar Jiménez (CUB) 1 1974 Winnipeg File:Flag of the United States.svg Walter Browne (USA) 2 1977 Santa Cruz File:Flag of Brazil (1968–1992).svg Herman Claudius Van Riemsdijk (BRA) 3 1981 San Pedro File:Flag of Paraguay (1954-1988).svg Zenon Franco (PAR) 4 1987 La Paz File:Flag of Argentina.svg Pablo Ricardi (ARG) 5 1988 Havana File:Flag of Cuba.svg Juan Borges (CUB) 6 ? ? 7 ? ? 8 1998 San Felipe File:Flag of the United States.svg Alexander Ivanov (USA)
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American Continental Chess Championship
The American Continental Chess Championship qualified in 2001 and 2003 the top seven players for the FIDE World Championships. From 2005, this tournament has been played as a qualifier for the World Cup stage of the World Championship. The number of players who qualified changed in the various editions. In 2005, the top seven players qualified for the Chess World Cup 2005. In 2014 and 2015 the top four earned a spot in the Chess World Cup 2015.
*Note: 2008 and 2010 editions' official name was Campeonato Panamericano-Continental, instead of Campeonato Continental de las Americas as the others.
American Continental Women's Championship
The American Continental Women's Chess Championship serves as a qualifier for the knockout Women's World Chess Championship.
# Year City Winner 1 2001 Mérida File:Flag of Cuba.svg Sulennis Piña Vega (CUB) 2 2003 San Cristobal File:Flag of the United States.svg Rusudan Goletiani (USA) 3 2005 Guatemala File:Flag of Cuba.svg Sulennis Piña Vega (CUB) 4 2007 Potrero de los Funes File:Flag of Venezuela.svg Sarai Sanchez Castillo (VEN) 5 2009 Cali File:Flag of Ecuador (1900–2009).svg Martha Fierro (ECU) 6 2011 Guayaquil File:Flag of Peru.svg Deysi Cori (PER) 7 2014 Buenos Aires File:Flag of Argentina.svg Carolina Luján (ARG) 8 2016 Lima File:Flag of Peru.svg Deysi Cori (PER) 9 2017 Villa Martelli File:Flag of Peru.svg Deysi Cori (PER) 10 2018 Envigado File:Flag of Peru.svg Deysi Cori (PER) 11 2019 Aguascalientes File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Maili-Jade Ouellet (CAN) 12 2022 13 2023 La Habana File:Flag of Argentina.svg Candela Francisco Guecamburu (ARG)
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- In 2007 Marisa Zuriel won a rapid playoff with Sarai Sanchez Castillo to qualify for the world championship but the Champion of the tournament was Sarai Sanchez:[4][5]
Pan American Women's Championship
# Year City Winner 1 1980 Córdoba File:Flag of Argentina.svg Edith Soppe (ARG) 2 1996 Bogotá File:Flag of Cuba.svg Vivian Ramón (CUB) 3 1997 Mérida File:Flag of Argentina.svg Claudia Amura (ARG) 4 1998 San Felipe File:Flag of Argentina.svg Sabina Hernández Penna (ARG) 5 1999 San Felipe File:Flag of Mexico.svg Yadira Hernández (MEX) 6 2000 Mérida File:Flag of Cuba.svg Maritza Arribas Robaina (CUB) 7 2006 San Salvador File:Flag of Cuba.svg Sulennis Piña Vega (CUB) 8 2008 San Salvador File:Flag of Cuba.svg Zirka Frometa (CUB) 9 2010 Campinas File:Flag of Cuba.svg Yanira Vigoa (CUB) 10 2012 Montevideo File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Carla Heredia Serrano (ECU) 11 2014 Palmira File:Flag of Colombia.svg Beatriz Franco (COL) 12 2016 Manzanillo, Colima File:Flag of Peru.svg Deysi Cori (PER)
References
- BrasilBase: Campeonatos Panamericanos (in Portuguese)
- Complete standings on Chess-Results: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
- FIDE: 2011
- Results from The Week in Chess: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008
- American Continental Women's Championship standings: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
Notes
- ↑ Hollywood 1945 Pan-American Championship BrasilBase
- ↑ Wall, Bill. "California Chess in the 1950s". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ↑ There was no playoff to determine the winner: Chessdom report, blog of the official website
- ↑ "Bienvenido a la Asociacion Sanluiseña de Ajedrez".
- ↑ ChessBase report (in Spanish)
Further reading
- Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-517-53146-1