Fourteen of the highest rated players in the United States gathered in July 1983 to compose in a Round Robin tournament to determine the United States Chess Champion. This is a round-by-round account of the event, with the scores of all of the games an annotations to the decisive games by the 1983 Co-Champion. Round-by-round commentary is provided by NM Jeremy Silman, who was present as Jay Whitehead's second. Photographs and artist's drawings provide a view of the contestants in action.

This years participants:

• GM Lev Alburt
• GM Walter Browne
• GM Larry Chistiansen
• GM Roman Dzindzihashvili
• GM Antony Lein
• GM Andrew Soltis
• GM James Tarjan
• IM Joel Benjamin
• IM Nicholas deFirmian
• IM Dimitry Gurevich
• IM Boris Kogan
• Sergey Kudrin
• Kamran Shirazi
• NM Jay Whitehead