2012 U.S. Championships

2011 U.S. Champion GM Gata Kamsky / 2011 U.S. Women's Champion IM Anna Zatonskih

Overview

The 2012 U.S. Championship will feature an elite field of just 12 players and a guaranteed prize fund of at least $160,000. In addition, the CCSCSL will sponsor the “$64K Fischer Prize,” to be awarded to anyone that scores a perfect 11-0 in the U.S. Championship, in honor of Bobby Fischer’s result at the 1963-64 U.S. Championship. 

The field for the 2012 U.S. Championship is as follows:

• GM Hikaru Nakamura (2848)
• GM Gata Kamsky (2804)
• GM Alexander Onischuk (2736)
• GM Yasser Seirawan (2723)
• GM Robert Hess (2717)
• GM Varuzhan Akobian (2709)
• GM Alexander Stripunsky (2700)
• GM Ray Robson (2674)
• GM Alejandro Ramirez (2668)
• GM Yury Shulman (2666)
• GM Aleksandr Lenderman (2665)
• GM Gregory Kaidanov (2658)

Tournament Format: Round Robin
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The 2012 U.S. Women’s Championship will feature a guaranteed prize fund of $64,000 and 10 players, including:

• IM Anna Zatonskih (2563)
• IM Irina Krush (2500)
• WGM Camilla Baginskaite (2419)
• WGM Sabina Foisor (2413)
• WGM Tatev Abrahamyan (2350)
• WIM Viktorija Ni (2349)
• IM Rusudan Goletiani (2337)
• FM Alisa Melekhina (2321)
• WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2329)
• WFM Alena Kats (2233)

Tournament Format: Round Robin

Schedule