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🏆 54th US Open (1953)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Anthony Santasiere, Norman Whitaker, Nicolas Rossolimo, Donald Byrne, Israel Albert Horowitz, Hans Berliner, Alexander Kevitz, Herman Steiner, George Shainswit, Ivan Romanenko, Adolf Jay Fink, Albert Sandrin, William Lombardy, Larry Evans, Edmar Mednis, Arthur Bisguier, James Sherwin, Arthur Dake, Curt Brasket, Karl Burger, Orest Popovych, Edgar McCormick, James R Schroeder, David J Kerman, Richard McLellan, Ariel Mengarini, Richard Kujoth, Max Pavey, George Krauss, Nikolajs Kampars, Harold Leef, Michael Yatron, Henry G Horak, Leonids Dreibergs, Elmars Zemgalis, Eliot Hearst, Rudolf Pitschak, Vladimir Pafnutieff, Jack O'Keefe, Charles Henin, Bela Rozsa, William M Byland, Lee Travis Magee, Erich Marchand, Abe Turner, Arthur Garwood Ashbrook, Edward LaCroix, James Cross, Miroslav Turiansky, Robert Schmidt, Amos Kaminsky, Allen Kaufman, Arents Legore Prindle, Frank Ross Anderson, Heinricks Kalnins, Leon Stolzenberg, Harlow Daly, Jose R Florido, Miguel Colon Romero, Eva Aronson, Willa White Owens, Joseph Shaffer, Charles Sharp, Howard Ohman, Charles C Crittenden, Giles Koelsche, John Harold Roll, Gerald Rutz, Isadore Schwartz, Hugh Edward Myers, Alfred Charles Ludwig, Harry Fajans, Arpad Elo, Edwin M Faust, Robert Brieger, Robert Sobel, George Eastman, Glenn Hartleb, Aleksandrs Liepnieks, Oscar Wehrley, Laurence C Young, Henry R Meifert, Angelo Sandrin, Carl Weberg, Samuel Baron, James E Barry, Robert C Eastwood, Walter Grombacher, Frank Inbusch, Mark Surgies, John Penquite, Jean Cohn, Fred Rathmann, Eugene Warner, William Watts, Kalman Farkas, James L Harkins, Jeremiah F Donovan, John D Mager, Eric Gutmanis plus 17 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
54th US Open (1953)

The tournament was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and won by Donald Byrne. Wikipedia article: U.S. Open Chess Championship

 page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 236  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A G Ashbrook vs E LaCroix 0-132195354th US OpenE98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1
2. A L Prindle vs I Romanenko  0-132195354th US OpenA80 Dutch
3. G Rutz vs C C Crittenden  0-130195354th US OpenD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
4. I Schwartz vs H E Myers  0-133195354th US OpenE97 King's Indian
5. Santasiere vs R Kujoth 1-051195354th US OpenA00 Uncommon Opening
6. C Brasket vs A Dake  1-036195354th US OpenA25 English
7. N Whitaker vs M Pavey  1-045195354th US OpenB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
8. E Zemgalis vs E McCormick  1-023195354th US OpenD28 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
9. A Bisguier vs L T Magee  1-026195354th US OpenE80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
10. E Mednis vs R Schmidt  1-026195354th US OpenC53 Giuoco Piano
11. D Byrne vs J R Florido  1-038195354th US OpenD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. H Ohman vs C C Crittenden  0-127195354th US OpenD14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
13. G Koelsche vs F R Anderson  0-136195354th US OpenA04 Reti Opening
14. K Burger vs A C Ludwig  1-035195354th US OpenD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
15. J Cross vs M Colon Romero  1-039195354th US OpenE61 King's Indian
16. H Fajans vs H Berliner  0-144195354th US OpenB33 Sicilian
17. A J Fink vs L Evans  0-142195354th US OpenA48 King's Indian
18. I A Horowitz vs A Elo  1-041195354th US OpenD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
19. N Kampars vs Rossolimo  0-133195354th US OpenE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
20. G Krauss vs E M Faust  1-032195354th US OpenD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
21. A Mengarini vs H E Myers  ½-½44195354th US OpenB07 Pirc
22. J Sherwin vs R Brieger 1-044195354th US OpenD02 Queen's Pawn Game
23. R Sobel vs E Hearst  0-140195354th US OpenB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
24. H Steiner vs G Eastman  1-023195354th US OpenE80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
25. Rossolimo vs N Whitaker  1-037195354th US OpenE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
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