United States Chess Champions

The American championship is sanctioned by the U.S. Chess Federation.

• Alexander Shabalaov
  • 1993 U.S. Chess champion
• Albert B. Hodges
  • 1894-95 U.S. Chess champion
• Alex Yermolinsky
  • 1993 U.S. Chess champion
• Arnold Denker
  • 1944 U.S. Chess champion
• Arthur Bisquier
  • 1954 U.S. Chess champion
• Bobby Fischer

  American chess player.

  • 1957-61 and 1962-66 U.S. Chess champion
• Boris Gulko
  • 1994 U.S. Chess champion
• Charles Henry Stanley
  • 1845-57 U.S. Chess champion
• Frank J. Marshall
  • 1909-36 U.S. Chess champion
• Gata Kamsky
  • 1991 U.S. Chess champion
• George Mackenzie
  • 1871-90 U.S. Chess champion
• Harry Nelson Pillsbury
  • 1897-1906 U.S. Chess champion
• Herman Steiner
  • 1948 U.S. Chess champion
• Jackson Showalter
  • 1890-91, 1894, 1895-97 and 1906-09 U.S. Chess champion
• Joel Benjamin
  • 1987 U.S. Chess champion
• John Grefe
  • 1973 U.S. Chess champion
• Larry Evans
  • 1951-52, 1961-62, 1968 and 1980 U.S. Chess champion
• Larry Christiansen
  • 1980 and 1983 U.S. Chess champion
• Lev Alburt
  • 1984-85 and 1990 U.S. Chess champion
• Lubomír Kavalek
  • 1978 U.S. Chess champion
• Lubosh Kavalek
  • 1973 U.S. Chess champion
• Michael Wilder
  • 1988 U.S. Chess champion
• Nick deFirmian
  • 1987 U.S. Chess champion
• Patrick Wolff
  • 1992 U. S. Chess champion
• Paul Morphy
  • 1857-71 U.S. Chess champion
• Robert Byrne
  • 1972 U.S. Chess champion
• Roman Dzindzichashvili
  • 1983 and 1989 U.S. Chess champion
• Samuel Reshevsky
  • 1936-42, 1946 and 1969 U.S. Chess champion
• Soloman Lipschutz
  • 1891-94 U.S. Chess champion
• Stuart Rachels
  • 1989 U.S. Chess champion
• Walter Browne
  • 1974-77 and 1980-83 U.S. Chess champion
• Yasser Seirawan
  • 1981, 1986 and 1989 U.S. Chess champion