U.S. Women's Open Chess Championship
The U.S. Women's Open Championship is an open chess tournament that has been held irregularly. From 1934 through at least 1966 it was held in conjunction with the annual U.S. Open Chess Championship. After some years of inactivity, the event was reinstituted in 2009.
History
From 1934 through 1950 and in 1954, the women's tournaments were held as a round-robin tournament in conjunction with the U.S. Open. From 1951 through 1978, with the exception of 1954, the women played in the U.S. Open with the title U.S. Women's Open Champion being awarded to the woman with the highest score.
After 1978, the title was not awarded until 2009. That year the event was held again with sixteen players in a six-round tournament, in conjunction with the U.S. Senior Open Chess Championship and two other tournaments. Chess Life incorrectly called it the first U.S. Women's Open Championship. The highest-placing US citizen qualified for the U.S. Women's Chess Championship.
The event was then not held until 2015, when it was held in conjunction with the National Open in Las Vegas. It has been held each year since then, except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winners
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Year Location Champions 1934 Chicago Script error: No such module "sort". 1937 Chicago Script error: No such module "sort". 1938 Boston Script error: No such module "sort". 1939 New York City Script error: No such module "sort". 1948 Baltimore Script error: No such module "sort". 1950 Detroit Script error: No such module "sort". 1951 Fort Worth, Texas Script error: No such module "sort". 1953 Milwaukee Script error: No such module "sort". 1954[1] New Orleans, Louisiana Script error: No such module "sort". 1955 Long Beach, California Script error: No such module "sort". 1956 Oklahoma City Script error: No such module "sort". 1957 Cleveland Script error: No such module "sort". 1958 Rochester, Minnesota Script error: No such module "sort". 1959 Omaha, Nebraska Script error: No such module "sort". 1960 St. Louis Script error: No such module "sort". 1961 San Francisco Script error: No such module "sort". 1962 San Antonio Script error: No such module "sort". 1963 Chicago Script error: No such module "sort". 1964 Boston Script error: No such module "sort". 1965 Río Piedras, Puerto Rico Script error: No such module "sort". 1966 Seattle Script error: No such module "sort". 1967 Atlanta Script error: No such module "sort". 1968 Aspen, Colorado Script error: No such module "sort". 1969 Lincoln, Nebraska Script error: No such module "sort". 1970 Boston Script error: No such module "sort". 1971 Ventura, California Script error: No such module "sort". 1972 Atlantic City, New Jersey Script error: No such module "sort". 1973 Chicago Script error: No such module "sort". 1974 New York City Script error: No such module "sort". 1975 Lincoln, Nebraska Script error: No such module "sort". 1976 Fairfax, Virginia Script error: No such module "sort". 1977 Columbus, Ohio Script error: No such module "sort". 1978 Phoenix, Arizona Script error: No such module "sort". 2009 Tulsa, Oklahoma Script error: No such module "sort". 2015 Las Vegas Script error: No such module "sort". 2016 Las Vegas Script error: No such module "sort". 2017 Las Vegas Script error: No such module "sort". 2018 Las Vegas Script error: No such module "sort". 2019 Las Vegas Script error: No such module "sort". 2021 Las Vegas Script error: No such module "sort".
See also
Notes
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- ↑ 1954 was a separate round robin of 11 players, and the women's zonal tournament for that year. Gresser won 8–2. Mona Karff and Sonja Graf tied at 7–3, but Karff had more Sonnenborn-Berger points and qualified with Gresser to play in the Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament.
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References
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (History and winners list of the tournament through 1966.)
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". For years 1967–1971 and 1974–1978, U.S. Open prize lists from Chess Life were consulted.
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