US Chess Championship - Definition and Overview

Winner list:

• 2005 Hikaru Nakamura
• 2004 Alexander Shabalov
• 2003 Alexander Shabalov
• 2002 Larry Christiansen
• 2000 Joel Benjamin / Alexander Shabalov / Yasser Seirawan
• 1999 Boris Gulko
• 1998 Nick de Firmian
• 1997 Joel Benjamin
• 1996 Alex Yermolinsky
• 1995 Nick de Firmian / Patrick Wolff / Alexander Ivanov
• 1994 Boris Gulko
• 1993 Alexander Shabalov / Alex Yermolinsky
• 1992 Patrick Wolff
• 1991 Gata Kamsky
• 1990 Lev Alburt
• 1989 Roman Dzindzichashvili / Yasser Seirawan / Stuart Rachels
• 1988 Michael Wilder
• 1987 Nick de Firmian / Joel Benjamin
• 1986 Yasser Seirawan
• 1985 Lev Alburt
• 1984 Lev Alburt
• 1983 Walter Browne / Larry Christiansen / Roman Dzindzichashvili
• 1981 Walter Browne / Yasser Seirawan
• 1980 Walter Browne / Larry Evans / Larry Christiansen
• 1978 Lubomir Kavalek
• 1977 Walter Browne
• 1975 Walter Browne
• 1974 Walter Browne
• 1973 John Grefe / Lubomir Kavalek
• 1972 Robert Byrne
• 1970 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1969 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1968 Larry Evans
• 1966 Bobby Fischer
• 1965 Bobby Fischer
• 1963 Bobby Fischer
• 1962 Bobby Fischer
• 1961 Larry Evans
• 1960 Bobby Fischer
• 1959 Bobby Fischer
• 1958 Bobby Fischer
• 1954 Arthur Bisguier
• 1951 Larry Evans
• 1948 Herman Steiner
• 1946 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1944 Arnold Denker
• 1942 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1940 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1938 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1936 Samuel Reshevsky
• 1909 - 1935 Frank Marshall
• 1906 - 1909 Jackson Showalter
• 1897 - 1906 Harry Nelson Pillsbury
• 1895 - 1897 Jackson Showalter
• 1894 - 1895 Albert Hodges
• 1894 Jackson Showalter
• 1891 - 1894 Solomon Lipschutz
• 1890 - 1891 Jackson Showalter
• 1871 - 1890 George H. Mackenzie
• 1857 - 1871 Paul Morphy (Morphy retired from public chess competition in 1859)
• 1845 - 1857 Charles Stanley