Pan American Chess Championship

For the team chess tournament held between 1971 and 2013, see Pan American Team Chess Championship. For the annual collegiate-level team chess tournament, see Pan American Intercollegiate Team 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)

The first Pan American Chess Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July – 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows:

The second championship was held in 1954 in Los Angeles and was an open tournament.[2]

Winners

Pan American Championship

# Year City Winner
1* 1945 Hollywood  Samuel Reshevsky (USA)
2* 1954 Los Angeles  Arthur Bisguier (USA)
3* 1958 Bogotá  Oscar Panno (ARG)
4* 1963 Havana  Eleazar Jiménez (CUB)
5* 1966 Havana  Eleazar Jiménez (CUB)
6* 1968 Cárdenas  Silvino García Martínez (CUB)
7* 1970 Havana  Eleazar Jiménez (CUB)
1 1974 Winnipeg  Walter Browne (USA)
2 1977 Santa Cruz  Herman Claudius Van Riemsdijk (BRA)
3 1981 San Pedro  Zenon Franco (PAR)
4 1987 La Paz  Pablo Ricardi (ARG)
5 1988 Havana  Juan Borges (CUB)
6 ? ?
7 ? ?
8 1998 San Felipe  Alexander Ivanov (USA)

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.

# Year City Winner
1 2001 Cali  Alex Yermolinsky (USA)
2 2003 Buenos Aires  Alexander Goldin (USA)
3 2005 Buenos Aires  Lázaro Bruzón (CUB)
4 2007 Cali  Julio Granda (PER)
* 2008 Boca Raton  Jaan Ehlvest (USA)
5 2009 São Paulo  Alexander Shabalov (USA)
 Fidel Corrales Jimenez (CUB)[3]
* 2010 Cali  Sergio Andres Sanabria Rangel (COL)
6 2011 Toluca  Lázaro Bruzón (CUB)
7 2012 Mar del Plata  Julio Granda (PER)
8 2013 Cochabamba  Julio Granda (PER)
9 2014 Natal, Rio Grande do Norte  Julio Granda (PER)
10 2015 Montevideo  Sandro Mareco (ARG)
11 2016 San Salvador  Emilio Córdova (PER)
12 2017 Medellín  Samuel Sevian (USA)
13 2018 Montevideo  Samuel Shankland (USA)
14 2019 São Paulo  Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli (VEN)
15 2022 San Salvador  Timur Gareyev (USA)
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

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  Sulennis Piña Vega (CUB)
2 2003 San Cristobal  Rusudan Goletiani (USA)
3 2005 Guatemala  Sulennis Piña Vega (CUB)
4 2007 Potrero de los Funes  Sarai Sanchez Castillo (VEN)
5 2009 Cali  Martha Fierro (ECU)
6 2011 Guayaquil  Deysi Cori (PER)
7 2014 Buenos Aires  Carolina Luján (ARG)
8 2016 Lima  Deysi Cori (PER)
9 2017 Villa Martelli  Deysi Cori (PER)
10 2018 Envigado  Deysi Cori (PER)
11 2019 Aguascalientes  Maili-Jade Ouellet (CAN)
12 2022
13 2023 La Habana  Candela Francisco Guecamburu (ARG)
  • 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  Edith Soppe (ARG)
2 1996 Bogotá  Vivian Ramón (CUB)
3 1997 Mérida  Claudia Amura (ARG)
4 1998 San Felipe  Sabina Hernández Penna (ARG)
5 1999 San Felipe  Yadira Hernández (MEX)
6 2000 Mérida  Maritza Arribas Robaina (CUB)
7 2006 San Salvador  Sulennis Piña Vega (CUB)
8 2008 San Salvador  Zirka Frometa (CUB)
9 2010 Campinas  Yanira Vigoa (CUB)
10 2012 Montevideo  Carla Heredia Serrano (ECU)
11 2014 Palmira  Beatriz Franco (COL)
12 2016 Manzanillo, Colima  Deysi Cori (PER)

References

Notes

  1. ^ Hollywood 1945 Pan-American Championship BrasilBase
  2. ^ Wall, Bill. "California Chess in the 1950s". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ^ There was no playoff to determine the winner: Chessdom report, blog of the official website
  4. ^ "Bienvenido a la Asociacion Sanluiseña de Ajedrez".
  5. ^ ChessBase report (in Spanish)

Further reading