Golden Knights (chess)

Golden Knights (chess)

The Golden Knights is the United States open correspondence chess championship. It is held annually by the United States Chess Federation (USCF), and is open to all members of the USCF residing in the continental United States or Hawaii, or who have an APO or FPO address. It was first held in 1943 under the name Victory Tournament, the next year it was called the Postal Chess Championship and in 1945 it was finally renamed as the Golden Knights tournament. The 59th annual Golden Knights tournament began in 2006. About 5,000 players typically participate in each tournament.

The tournament is played in three stages: the preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals. At each stage, the participants are divided into a number of seven-player sections, with each participant playing one game (three with White, three with Black) against every other player in the section. Each participant plays in the preliminaries, playing in a section with players having a wide range of ratings. The top finishers in the preliminaries (usually having scores of 5-1 or better) advance to the semi-finals. The top players in the semi-finals (again, usually having scores of 5-1 or better) advance to the finals. A player's score is determined by her weighted-point total, which is determined by multiplying her score at each stage by a coefficient that weighs later results more heavily than earlier results. The coefficient used for each point in the finals is slightly more than twice that used for each point in the semi-finals. The coefficient used for each point in the semi-finals is slightly more than twice that used for each point in the preliminaries. Thus, a player who wins all of his games except for one draw in the preliminaries will have a higher weighted-point total than a player who won all of his games except for a draw in the semi-finals, and both of those players will have a higher weighted-point total than a player who won all of his games except for a draw in the finals.

Golden Knights Champions

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References

* [http://main.uschess.org/content/blogcategory/82/393/ USCF homepage]
* [http://www.uschess.org/CL_2006_Yearbook.pdf USCF 2006 Yearbook]


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