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The American Chess Association was a chess organisation founded in New York, 1857. The organization organized the first major chess tournament, the First American Chess Congress, in the United States on October 6, 1857. On November 11, 1857, Paul Morphy, who had defeated Louis Paulsen in the tournament, was presented with a silver service at the prize giving by Colonel Charles D. Mead, President of the ACA. On behalf of Paul Morphy, the American Chess Association offered a $5,000 challenge to any player in Europe to contest a match with the recently crowned ACA champion.

The ACA published a monthly magazine, American Chess Monthly, founded in January 1857 by Willard Fiske, who had helped organize the First American Chess Congress. Fiske edited American Chess Monthly from 1857 until 1860, four months before it ceased publication. Morphy was credited as co-editor, though he had little actual involvement.

In 1874, the American Chess Association changed its name to the National Chess Association. The Natioonal Chess Federation had no connection with the National Chess Association which changed its name immediately back to American Chess Association. The United States Chess Federation had no connection to the United States Chess Association which ran congresses through 1891 and was restarted in 1921 by walter Shipley but went defunct by 1923.A successor organization, the National Chess Federation, merged with the American Chess Federation in 1939 to create the modern U.S. Chess Federation.

References

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2. Bill Wall. "Strange But True". Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
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4. "October 6, 1857 in History". Brainy History. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
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6. Frederick Milnes Edge (1859). The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy. D. Appleton & Company. pp. p.16. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
7. "1857 Chess Congress". Cornell Library. Retrieved 2007-07-28.
8. David Hooper (1984). The Oxford Companion to Chess. Oxford University Press. pp. p.117. ISBN 0192175408. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
9. Andrew Soltis (1986). The U.S. Chess Championship, 1845-1985. McFarland & Company Inc. pp. p.31. ISBN 0899500560. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
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Further reading

• Willard Fiske (1859). The book of the first American chess congress; containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage held in New York in the year 1857 together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds. New York: Rudd & Carlton. OCLC 3734014.

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