Pan American Chess Championship
The Pan American Chess Championship, also American continental Championship is an individual chess tournament organized since 1945.
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
United States 10.5, - 2. Reuben Fine United States 9,
- 3. Herman Pilnik
Argentina 8.5, - 4. Israel Horowitz United States 8,
- 5. Isaac Kashdan United States 7,
- 6. Hector Rossetto Argentina 6.5,
- 7-8. Weaver Adams United States, Herman Steiner United States 5.5,
- 9-10. Walter Cruz
Brazil, José Joaquin Araiza 
Mexico 5, - 11. Jose Broderman
Cuba 3.5, - 12. Herbert Seidman United States 3,
- 13. Joaquin Camarena Mexico 1.[1]
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 Garcia Martinez (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 Cordova (PER)
*Note: 2008 and 2010 editions' official name was Campeonato Panamericano-Continental, instead of Campeonato Continental de las Americas as the others.
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 Merida Sulennis Pina Vega (CUB)2 2003 San Cristobal Rusudan Goletiani (USA)3 2005 Guatemala Sulennis Pina Vega (CUB)4 2007 Potrero de los Funes Marisa Zuriel (ARG)[4]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)
References
- BrasilBase: Campeonatos Panamericanos (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 1950's". Retrieved 2015-08-23.
- ↑ There was no playoff to determine the winner: Chessdom report, blog of the official website
- ↑ Marisa Zuriel took first place after a rapid playoff with Sarai Sanchez Castillo: ChessBase report (Spanish)
Further reading
- Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
External links
- 2003 on uschess.org
- 2005 edition, Chessbase
- On the championship as qualifier
- Biography on Eleazar Jiménez
- Biography on Silvino Garcia Martinez