Pan American Team Chess Championship

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The '''Pan American Team Chess Championship''' is an international team [[chess]] tournament open to national federations affiliated to [[FIDE]] in the [[Americas]]. It is organized by the Confederation of Chess for America (CCA), and the winner qualifies to participate at the next [[World Team Chess Championship]].<ref name=regs></ref>

The tournament has been held at irregular intervals since 1971. Its most recent edition took place in 2013, which was won by the [[United States Chess Federation|United States]] in its debut appearance at the event. Cuba has won five of the nine editions of the tournament, [[Argentine Chess Federation|Argentina]] has won twice, and [[Brazilian Chess Confederation|Brazil]] and the United States have each won once.<ref name=main></ref>

==Competition==
Each member federation located in FIDE Zones 2.1 to 2.5 is entitled to enter a national team of four players and up to two reserve players. Matches are contested on four . The final standings in the tournament are determined by the number of game points scored by each team.<ref name=regs/> The tournament has been held as a single round-robin except in 1987 and 2013, when a double round-robin was played. Between four and eight teams have participated in each edition of the tournament.<ref></ref>

==Results==

{| class="wikitable"
|- align=center
|width=50 style="background:#efefef;"|'''Year'''
|width=150 style="background:#efefef;"|'''Location'''
|width=200 style="background:gold;" |'''Gold'''
|width=200 style="background:silver;"|'''Silver'''
|width=200 style="background:#cc9966;"|'''Bronze'''
|width=200 style="background:#efefef;"|'''Participating<br />federations'''<ref name=main/>
|-valign="top"
|'''1971'''
| '''[[San Miguel de Tucumán|Tucumán]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Miguel Najdorf]]<br />[[Oscar Panno]]<br />[[Raúl Sanguineti]]<br />[[Miguel Quinteros]]<br />[[Samuel Schweber]]
|''''''<br />[[Eleazar Jiménez]]<br />[[Silvino García Martínez]]<br />[[Eldis Cobo Arteaga]]<br />[[Jesús Rodríguez Gonzáles]]<br />[[Román Hernández]]
|''''''<br />[[Eduardo Asfora]]<br />[[Vitório Chemin]]<br />[[Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk]]<br />[[Hélder Câmara (chess player)|Hélder Câmara]]<br />[[Francisco Alves dos Santos (chess player)|Francisco Alves dos Santos]]
|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''1985'''
| '''[[Villa Gesell]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Miguel Najdorf]]<br />[[Miguel Quinteros]]<br />[[Oscar Panno]]<br />[[Gerardo Barbero]]<br />[[Pablo Ricardi]]<br />[[Guillermo Soppe]]
|''''''<br />[[Jaime Sunye Neto]]<br />[[Gilberto Milos]]<br />[[Rubens Filguth]]<br />[[Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk]]<br />[[Francisco Trois]]
|''''''<br />[[Iván Morovic]]<br />[[Roberto Cifuentes]]<br />[[Manuel Abarca Aguirre]]<br />[[Carlos Silva Sánchez]]<br />[[Marcelo Duarte]]<br />[[Christian Michel Yunis]]
|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''1987'''
| '''[[Junín, Buenos Aires|Junín]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Jesús Nogueiras]]<br />[[Amador Rodríguez Céspedes]]<br />[[Guillermo García González]]<br />[[Reynaldo Vera]]<br />[[Joaquin Carlos Diaz]]<br />[[Walter Arencibia]]
|''''''<br />[[Roberto Cifuentes]]<br />[[Hernán Salazar Jacob]]<br />[[Manuel Abarca Aguirre]]<br />[[Carlos Silva Sánchez]]<br />[[Marcelo Duarte]]<br />[[Ricardo Araya]]
|''''''<br />[[Marcelo Tempone]]<br />[[Guillermo Soppe]]<br />[[Jorge Gómez Baillo]]<br />[[Ariel Sorín]]<br />[[Alejandro Hoffman]]<br />[[Carlos Schwanek]]
|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''1991'''
| '''[[Guarapuava]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Jesús Nogueiras]]<br />[[Walter Arencibia]]<br />[[Amador Rodríguez Céspedes]]<br />[[Reynaldo Vera]]<br />[[Román Hernández]]<br />[[Joaquin Carlos Diaz]]
|''''''<br />[[Jaime Sunye Neto]]<br />[[Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk]]<br />[[Darcy Lima]]<br />[[Cicero Braga]]<br />[[Aron Corrêa]]<br />[[Everaldo Matsuura]]
|''''''<br />[[Alonso Zapata]]<br />[[Gildardo García]]<br />[[Nelson Gamboa]]<br />[[Jorge Mario Clavijo]]<br />[[Ricardo Díaz (chess player)|Ricardo Díaz]]
|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''1995'''
| '''[[Cascavel]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Jesús Nogueiras]]<br />[[Walter Arencibia]]<br />[[Reynaldo Vera]]<br />[[Amador Rodríguez Céspedes]]<br />[[Julio Becerra Rivero]]<br />[[Juan Borges Mateos]]
|''''''<br />[[Pablo Zarnicki]]<br />[[Pablo Ricardi]]<br />[[Sergio David Slipak]]<br />[[Ariel Sorín]]<br />[[Marcelo Tempone]]<br />[[Alejandro Hoffman]]
|''''''<br />[[Gilberto Milos]]<br />[[Jaime Sunye Neto]]<br />[[Darcy Lima]]<br />[[Giovanni Vescovi]]<br />[[Everaldo Matsuura]]<br />[[Cicero Braga]]
|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''2000'''
| '''[[Mérida, Mérida|Mérida]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Reynaldo Vera]]<br />[[Jesús Nogueiras]]<br />[[Walter Arencibia]]<br />[[Lázaro Bruzón]]<br />[[Leinier Domínguez]]<br />[[Rodney Pérez]]
|''''''<br />[[Gilberto Milos]]<br />[[Rafael Leitão]]<br />[[Giovanni Vescovi]]<br />[[Darcy Lima]]
|''''''<br />[[Martín Crosa Coll]]<br />[[Guillermo Carvalho Fattoruso]]<br />[[Daniel Izquierdo Saravia]]<br />[[Mario Saralegui Cassan]]<br />[[Jaime Escofet Fernández]]
|<br /><br /><br /> (two teams)<br />
|-valign="top"
|'''2003'''
| '''[[Rio de Janeiro]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Leinier Domínguez]]<br />[[Lázaro Bruzón]]<br />[[Neuris Delgado Ramírez]]<br />[[Walter Arencibia]]<br />[[Reynaldo Vera]]
|''''''<br />[[Henrique Mecking]]<br />[[Darcy Lima]]<br />[[Cicero Braga]]<br />[[Everaldo Matsuura]]<br />[[Eduardo Limp]]<br />[[Rodrigo Disconzi da Silva]]
|''''''<br />[[Carlos Matamoros Franco]]<br />[[Daniel Mieles Palau]]<br />[[Plinio Pazos Gambarrotti]]<br />[[Martha Fierro]]
|<br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''2009'''
| '''[[Mendes, Rio de Janeiro|Mendes]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Giovanni Vescovi]]<br />[[Rafael Leitão]]<br />[[Alexandr Fier]]<br />[[Gilberto Milos]]<br />[[André Diamant]]<br />[[Darcy Lima]]
|''''''<br />[[Leinier Domínguez]]<br />[[Lázaro Bruzón]]<br />[[Fidel Corrales Jimenez|Fidel Corrales Jiménez]]<br />[[Neuris Delgado Ramírez]]<br />[[Yuniesky Quesada]]<br />[[Holden Hernández Carmenates]]
|''''''<br />[[Rafael Prasca Sosa]]<br />[[Johann Álvarez Márquez]]<br />[[José Sequera Paolini]]<br />[[Wiston Boada]]<br />[[Julio Ostos]]
|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
|-valign="top"
|'''2013'''
| '''[[Campinas]]'''
|''''''<br />[[Alexander Onischuk]]<br />[[Varuzhan Akobian]]<br />[[Ray Robson]]<br />[[Aleksandr Lenderman]]<br />[[Sam Shankland]]
|''''''<br />[[Leinier Domínguez]]<br />[[Lázaro Bruzón]]<br />[[Yuniesky Quesada]]<br />[[Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez]]
|''''''<br />[[Henrique Mecking]]<br />[[Gilberto Milos]]<br />[[Felipe El Debs]]<br />[[Diego Di Berardino]]<br />[[Everaldo Matsuura]]
|<br /><br /><br />
|}

==Other international team tournaments in the Americas==

Team chess events are currently part of the program at the [[Central American Games]], and have sometimes been part of the [[Bolivarian Games]], most recently [[Chess at the 2013 Bolivarian Games|in 2013]].

[[Mar del Plata]] hosted a South American Team Chess Championship in 1989 won by Argentina,<ref></ref> and a [[Mercosur]] Olympiad in 2009 won by Brazil.<ref></ref>

A Central American and Caribbean Team Chess Championship was held annually from 1963 to 1975.<ref></ref> More recently, a Central American Team Chess Championship has been held annually since 2011.<ref></ref>

==See also==

*[[Chess Olympiad]]
*[[Chess at the African Games]]
*[[Asian Team Chess Championship]]
*[[European Team Chess Championship]]


==References==




[[Category:Supranational chess championships]]
[[Category:1971 in chess]]
[[Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1971]]
[[Category:Chess in North America]]
[[Category:Chess in South America]]
[[Category:International sports championships in the Americas]]

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