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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:
- 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]
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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.
*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.
- 2007: Marisa Zuriel won the play-off to earn the lone Women's World Championship qualification spot.[4][5]
- 2022: Lisandra Teresa Ordaz Valdés won the play-off to earn the lone Women's World Cup qualification spot.
Pan American Women's Championship
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