U.S. Chess Championship

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Updated On : 02 Jun, 2018

Full Name
U.S. Chess Championship

Type
domestic

Location
United States

Disabled
No

Conducted
Annually

Gender
Both

Trivia

The U.S. Chess Championship is the oldest chess championship in the world.

The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational chess competition, held in the United States every year to determine the national chess champion. It has begun as a challenge in 1845 and has been held under the charge of the U.S. Chess Federation since 1936. The competition was sponsored by the Seattle Chess Foundation from 1999 to 2006. Since 2009, it has been hosted by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. There are other major chess championships held in the U.S. every year mentioned below-

U.S. Women's Chess Championship
U.S. Open Chess Championship
U.S. Women's Open Chess Championship

Competition Format

The championship is conducted in the round-robin format in which each participant plays with all other participants on an equal number of times.
The tournament in which four participants play is known as "Quads".
In case players belonging to different age group, rating categories are used.