 Sometimes the Pan-Am Intercollegiate is held as part of a larger event called the Pan-American Chess Championships comprising the Pan-Am Intercollegiate, Pan-Am Scholastic Team Championship, and Pan-Am Open (for any individual).For many years this tournament was, in effect, a national (or continental) championship.For a few years in the 1970s, the Continental Chess Association held a rival intercollegiate tournament, but that was discontinued.