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''See also: U.S. Women's Chess Championship''
The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national champion. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size. From 1999 to 2006, the Championship was sponsored and organized by the Seattle Chess Foundation (later renamed America's Foundation for Chess) as a large swiss system tournament. AF4C withdrew its sponsorship in 2007. The 2007 event was held (again under the swiss system) in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Winner list:

Contents

1936-present

1889-1935

Unofficial

References

1936-present

★ 2007 Alexander Shabalov

★ 2006 Alexander Onischuk

★ 2004 Hikaru Nakamura

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★ Tournament was played in 2004, but called the 2005 Championship, for legal reasons

★ 2003 Alexander Shabalov

★ 2002 Larry Christiansen

★ 2000 Joel Benjamin / Alexander Shabalov / Yasser Seirawan

★ 1999 Boris Gulko

★ 1998 Nick de Firmian

★ 1997 Joel Benjamin

★ 1996 Alex Yermolinsky

★ 1995 Nick de Firmian / Patrick Wolff / Alexander Ivanov

★ 1994 Boris Gulko (Gulko is the only man to have held both the US and Soviet championships)

★ 1993 Alexander Shabalov / Alex Yermolinsky

★ 1992 Patrick Wolff

★ 1991 Gata Kamsky

★ 1990 Lev Alburt

★ 1989 Roman Dzindzichashvili / Yasser Seirawan / Stuart Rachels

★ 1988 Michael Wilder

★ 1987 Nick de Firmian / Joel Benjamin

★ 1986 Yasser Seirawan

★ 1985 Lev Alburt

★ 1984 Lev Alburt

★ 1983 Walter Browne / Larry Christiansen / Roman Dzindzichashvili

★ 1981 Walter Browne / Yasser Seirawan

★ 1980 Walter Browne / Larry Evans / Larry Christiansen

★ 1978 Lubomir Kavalek

★ 1977 Walter Browne

★ 1975 Walter Browne

★ 1974 Walter Browne

★ 1973 John Grefe / Lubomir Kavalek

★ 1972 Robert Byrne / Samuel Reshevsky / Lubomir Kavalek

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★ Byrne won a playoff 9 months after the tournament to become The 1972 US Champion

★ 1969 Samuel Reshevsky

★ 1968 Larry Evans

★ 1966 Bobby Fischer

★ 1965 Bobby Fischer

★ 1963/64 Bobby Fischer

★ 1962/63 Bobby Fischer

★ 1961/62 Larry Evans

★ 1960/61 Bobby Fischer

★ 1959/60 Bobby Fischer

★ 1958/59 Bobby Fischer

★ 1957/58 Bobby Fischer

★ 1954 Arthur Bisguier

★ 1952 Larry Evans (Match victory over Herman Steiner)

★ 1951 Larry Evans

★ 1948 Herman Steiner

★ 1946 Samuel Reshevsky

★ 1946 Arnold Denker (Match victory over Herman Steiner)

★ 1944 Arnold Denker

★ 1942 Samuel Reshevsky

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★ An uncorrected scoring error by the director allowed Reshevsky to tie for first with Isaac Kashdan Reshevsky won a playoff match against Kashdan 6 months later.

★ 1941 Samuel Reshevsky (Match victory over I.A. Horowitz)

★ 1940 Samuel Reshevsky

★ 1938 Samuel Reshevsky

★ 1936 Samuel Reshevsky

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★ The series of US Championship tournaments began at this time

1889-1935

★ 1909 - 1935 Frank Marshall

★ 1906 - 1909 Jackson Showalter

★ 1898 - 1906 Harry Nelson Pillsbury

★ 1895 - 1898 Jackson Showalter

★ 1894 - 1895 Albert Hodges

★ 1892 - 1894 Jackson Showalter

★ 1892 - 1892 Solomon Lipschutz

★ 1892 - 1892 Jackson Showalter

★ 1890 - 1892 Max Judd

★ 1890 - 1890 Jackson Showalter

★ 1889 - 1890 Solomon Lipschutz

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★ First "Official" US Champion, as a result of being the top scoring American at New York 1889.

Unofficial

★ 1871 - 1889 George Henry Mackenzie

★ 1857 - 1871 Paul Morphy (Morphy retired from public chess competition in 1859)

★ 1845 - 1857 Charles Stanley

References

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★ Past US Champions

★ Graeme Cree's US Chess Championship Page

★ History of the United States Chess Championship, Isaac Kashdan, , , Chess Review, November-December, 1933, reprinted in The Best of Chess Life & Review 1933-1960, 1933, ISBN 0671619861