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.
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. Hermann Pilnik
Argentina 8.5, - 4. Israel Horowitz United States 8,
- 5. Isaac Kashdan United States 7,
- 6. Héctor 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]
Pan American Championship
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| # | 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) |
- 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
- ChessBase report (in Spanish)
- Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-517-53146-1