World Amateur Chess Championship
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The World Amateur Chess Championship was a tournament organized by the World Chess Federation, FIDE. FIDE intended to promote amateur chess play by holding championship tournaments linked to the Olympic Games, but only two events were held.
The first championship was held the year that FIDE was founded, at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. This is considered the unofficial first Chess Olympiad, and is the only Olympiad that was an individual event. The second championship was held at the 1928 Summer Olympics in The Hague, in conjunction with the 2nd Chess Olympiad.
Chess has never been an official part of the Olympic Games, and since the chess community does not make any essential distinction between amateur and professional[1] the championship was discontinued after 1928.
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# Year City Winner Country 1 1924 Paris Hermanis Matisons 
Latvia2 Fricis Apšenieks Latvia3 Edgar Colle .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png)
Belgium1 1928 The Hague Max Euwe 
Netherlands2 Dawid Przepiórka 
Poland3 Hermanis Matisons Latvia
[edit] See also
- 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad (Paris 1924)
- 2nd Chess Olympiad (The Hague 1928)
[edit] Notes
- ^ A chess amateur is a player who does not earn a living through chess. Chess amateurs are not restricted in any way: they can win prizes, accept appearance fees, and earn any chess title, including World Champion. In 1935 Max Euwe became the last amateur to win the World Championship. (Hooper & Whyld 1992, p. 13)
[edit] References
- Brace, Edward R. (1977), An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, Hamlyn Publishing Group, p. 18, ISBN 1-55521-394-4
- Hooper, David & Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 13, ISBN 0-19-280049-3
- Whyld, Ken (1986), Chess: The Records, Guinness Books, p. 28, ISBN 0-85112-455-0
