Jamaican Chess Championship - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Jamaican Chess Championship is the yearly national chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

championship of Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

. The first edition was played in 1969. The championship is usually a twelve-player round-robin tournament

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

. The championship is also used as a qualifier for the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

List of champions

Nr	Year	Winner
1	1969
2	1970
3	1971
4	1972
5	1973
6	1974
7	1975
8	1976
9	1977
10	1978
11	1979
12	1980
13	1981
14	1982
15	1983
16	1984
17	1985
18	1986
19	1987
20	1988
21	1989
22	1990
23	1991
24	1992
25	1993
26	1994
27	1995
28	1996
29	1997
30	1998
31	1999
32	2000
33	2001
34	2002
35	2003
36	2004
37	2005
38	2006
39	2007

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