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United States Chess Federation The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in FIDE, The World Chess Federation (FIDE). USCF administers the official national Chess ...
from its foundation in 1939 to present. The presidents were elected by voting members to three-year terms. Now the executive board elects its own officers annually.


List

* 1939–1942   George Sturgis * 1943–1948   Elbert Wagner, Jr. * 1948–1951   Paul Geirs * 1951–1954   Harold M. Phillips * 1954–1957   Frank Graves * 1957–1960  
Jerry Spann Jerry Garland Spann (August 13, 1912 – January 5, 1968) was an American chess administrator and businessman. He served as president of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) from 1957 to 1960 and also served as a vice-president of FIDE. H ...
* 1960–1963   Fred Cramer * 1963–1966   Ed Edmondson * 1966–1969   Marshall Rohland * 1969–1972   Leroy Dubeck * 1972–1975   Frank Skoff * 1975–1978  
George Koltanowski George Koltanowski (also "Georges"; 17 September 1903 – 5 February 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937 ...
* 1978–1981   Gary Sperling * 1981–1984  
Tim Redman Tim Redman is Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. The author of ''Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism'' (1991), his research focuses on Ezra Pound and more generally on American and British modernism. He retired a ...
* 1984–1987  
Steven Doyle Edward Steven Doyle (born 1959) was President of the United States Chess Federation The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in F ...
* 1987–1990   Harold Winston * 1990–1993  
Maxim Dlugy Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977. He was awarded the International Master ...
* 1993–1996  
Denis Barry Denis J. Barry (June 2, 1929 – December 20, 2003, in Tucson, Arizona) was president of the United States Chess Federation from 1993 to 1996. He was an enthusiastic chess organizer, best known for establishing the US Amateur Team East Chess Champ ...
* 1996–1999  
Don Schultz Donald Schultz (May 13, 1936, Woodhaven, Queens, New York – April 20, 2020, New Jersey) was a president and a vice-president of the United States Chess Federation (USCF). He was elected vice-president on August 14, 2005. He was defeated by th ...
* 1999–2000   Bob Smith * 2000–2001  
Tim Redman Tim Redman is Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. The author of ''Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism'' (1991), his research focuses on Ezra Pound and more generally on American and British modernism. He retired a ...
* 2001–2003   John McCrary * 2003–2005  
Beatriz Marinello Beatriz Mansilla Marinello (born May 14, 1964) is a Chilean-American chess player and chess official. She was a vice president of FIDE from 2010 to 2018. Marinello was previously president of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) from 2003 to ...
* 2005–2008  
Bill Goichberg William Goichberg (born November 11, 1942) is a chess master and chess tournament organizer and director. He founded the Continental Chess Association (CCA), which runs the annual World Open and other large tournaments. He is also a former pre ...
* 2009–2011   Jim Berry * 2011–2015  
Ruth Haring Ruth Inez Haring (January 23, 1955 – November 29, 2018), also known as Ruth Orton, was an American chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She competed in the United States Women's Championship in the 1970s an ...
* 2015–2017   Gary Walters * 2017–2018   Mike Hoffpauir * 2018–2020   W. Allen Priest * 2020–2022   Mike Hoffpauir * 2022–2024   Randy Bauer * 2024–present Kevin Pryor


See also

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United States Chess Federation The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in FIDE, The World Chess Federation (FIDE). USCF administers the official national Chess ...
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Executive Directors of the United States Chess Federation This article lists the current and former executive directors of the United States Chess Federation. List * 1952–1960 Kenneth Harkness * 1960–1961 Frank Brady * 1963–1964 Joe Reinhardt * 1966–1976 Ed Edmondson * 1977–1978 Martin Morri ...
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Fédération Internationale des Échecs The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the go ...
(FIDE) *
International Correspondence Chess Federation International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) was founded on 26 March 1951 as a new appearance of the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA), which was founded in 1945, as successor of the Internationaler Fernschachbund (IF ...
(ICCF)


References

* {{citation , last=USCF , author-link=United States Chess Federation , year=2016 , title=2016 Yearbook , url=http://www.uschess.org/images/stories/Yearbooks/2016yearbook.pdf , format = Retrieved 2017-12-09


External links


Official USCF website

USCF info on the FIDE website
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Presidents of the United States Chess Federation This article lists the presidents of the United States Chess Federation from its foundation in 1939 to present. The presidents were elected by voting members to three-year terms. Now the executive board elects its own officers annually. List * 193 ...