The 10th United States Chess Championship tournament was held in New York City at the end of the year 1957. Fourteen of the US's best masters and grandmasters were invited to compete. Among the participants was a veritable who's who of former American champions, including Samuel Reshevsky, Arthur Bisguier, and Arnold Denker. Filling out the rest of the field was a number of players from the prestiguous Rosenwald Memorial held the previous year, including a fourteen year old prodigy named Bobby Fischer. Fischer was already gaining recognition from several brilliant wins as the next generation of American chess grandmastery. However, the next generation had already arrived as Fischer dominated this, his inaugural championship, scoring wins against over half the field and finishing with 10½/13, a full point over 7-time former American champion Reshevsky. He became the youngest person ever to win the US crown, and the following year would become the youngest person to become a grandmaster. It was the beginning of a career that would culminate in Fischer becoming world champion and earning a place as one of the greatest chess players in history.The final standings and crosstable:
1st Fischer 10½/13 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1
2nd Reshevsky 9½/13 ½ * 0 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1
3rd Sherwin 9/13 0 1 * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1
4th Lombardy 7½/13 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 1 1
5th Berliner 7/13 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1
=6th Feuerstein 6½/13 0 0 1 ½ 1 * 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½
=6th Denker 6½/13 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 1
=6th Mednis 6½/13 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
9th Seidman 6/13 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 * 0 1 1 0 0
=10th Bernstein 5/13 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 0
=10th Bisguier 5/13 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 * 0 ½ 1
=12th Turner 4½/13 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 * 1 ½
=12th Di Camillo 4½/13 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 * 1
14th Kramer 3/13 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 ½ 0 *