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Notably absent is [[Hikaru Nakamura]], the most popular and influential [[American]] chess champion ranked #6 in the world. | Notably absent is [[Hikaru Nakamura]], the most popular and influential [[American]] chess champion ranked #6 in the world. | ||
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Revision as of 22:25, September 30, 2022
The U.S. Chess Championship is annual tournament to pick the chess champion for the United States.
Bobby Fischer was only 14 years old when he won his first of eight straight U.S. Championships, which is the record. He won with a perfect 11-0 score in 1964, the only perfect score ever achieved in the tournament.
2022 Tournament
From October 4 to 20, 2022, this annual tournament will be held at the Saint Louis Chess Club, the location a month earlier of the chess cheating scandal.[1]
Among the 14 contestants are:[2]
- Wesley So (top-ranked American player)
- Levon Aronian
- Fabiano Caruana (2018 Candidates winner, to compete for the world championship)
- Sam Shankland (2018 U.S. Champion)
- Jeffery Xiong
- Hans Niemann
Notably absent is Hikaru Nakamura, the most popular and influential American chess champion ranked #6 in the world.