Pan American Chess Championship
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)
[edit]The first Pan American Chess Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July – 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows:
- 1. Samuel Reshevsky
United States 10.5,
- 2. Reuben Fine
- 3. Hermann Pilnik
Argentina 8.5,
- 4. Israel Horowitz
- 5. Isaac Kashdan
- 6. Héctor Rossetto
- 7–8. Weaver Adams
United States 5.5,
- 9–10. Walter Cruz
Brazil, José Joaquin Araiza
Mexico 5,
- 11. Jose Broderman
Cuba 3.5,
- 12. Herbert Seidman
- 13. Joaquin Camarena
The second championship was held in 1954 in Los Angeles and was an open tournament.[2]
Winners
[edit]Pan American Championship
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# Year City Winner 1* 1945 Hollywood 2* 1954 Los Angeles 3* 1958 Bogotá 4* 1963 Havana 5* 1966 Havana 6* 1968 Cárdenas 7* 1970 Havana 1 1974 Winnipeg 2 1977 Santa Cruz Herman Claudius Van Riemsdijk (BRA)
3 1981 San Pedro Zenon Franco (PAR)
4 1987 La Paz 5 1988 Havana 6 ? ? 7 ? ? 8 1998 San Felipe
American Continental Chess Championship
[edit]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.
# Year City Winner 1 2001 Cali 2 2003 Buenos Aires 3 2005 Buenos Aires 4 2007 Cali Julio Granda (PER)
* 2008 Boca Raton 5 2009 São Paulo * 2010 Cali Sergio Andres Sanabria Rangel (COL)
6 2011 Toluca 7 2012 Mar del Plata 8 2013 Cochabamba 9 2014 Natal, Rio Grande do Norte 10 2015 Montevideo 11 2016 San Salvador 12 2017 Medellín 13 2018 Montevideo 14 2019 São Paulo Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli (VEN)
15 2022 San Salvador 16 2023 Juan Dolio Georg Meier (URU)
*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
[edit]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 2 2003 San Cristobal 3 2005 Guatemala 4 2007 Potrero de los Funes 5 2009 Cali Martha Fierro (ECU)
6 2011 Guayaquil 7 2014 Buenos Aires 8 2016 Lima 9 2017 Villa Martelli 10 2018 Envigado 11 2019 Aguascalientes Maili-Jade Ouellet (CAN)
12 2022 13 2023 La Habana
- 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
[edit]# Year City Winner 1 1980 Córdoba 2 1996 Bogotá 3 1997 Mérida 4 1998 San Felipe 5 1999 San Felipe Yadira Hernández (MEX)
6 2000 Mérida 7 2006 San Salvador 8 2008 San Salvador 9 2010 Campinas 10 2012 Montevideo Carla Heredia Serrano (ECU)
11 2014 Palmira 12 2016 Manzanillo, Colima
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-517-53146-1