Pan American Chess Championship

The first Pan-American 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 in 1954 was held in Los Angeles and was an open tournament.

#	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	?	?
6	?	?
7	?	?
8	1998	San Felipe	Alexander Ivanov (USA)

American Continental Chess Championship

This tournament has been played as the qualifier for the World Cup stage of the World Championship in which the top seven qualify.

#	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)
5	2008	Boca Raton	Jaan Ehlvest (USA)

References

1. ^ http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/ti1945hl.htm BrasilBase

• BrasilBase
• 2003 on uschess.org
• 2005 edition, Chessbase
• 2001 edition
• On the championship as qualifier
• Biography on Eleazar Jiménez
• Biography on Silvino Garcia Martinez
• 1954 Chess in California
• Golombek, Harry, ed. (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-517-53146-1 
• Results from TWIC: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008