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The entrance to the Marshall Chess Club at 23 West Tenth Street, Manhattan. The Marshall Chess Club, in Greenwich Village, New York City, is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. The club was formed in 1915 by a group of players led by Frank Marshall. It is a nonprofit organization and a gold affiliate of the United States Chess ...
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The Manhattan Chess Club in Manhattan, New York City was the second-oldest chess club in the United States (next to the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco) before it closed. The club was founded in 1877 and started with three dozen men, eventually increasing to hundreds, with women allowed as members from 1938.
New York 1924 was an elite chess tournament held in the Alamac Hotel in New York City from March 16 to April 18, 1924. It was organized by the Manhattan Chess Club. The competitors included world champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker. Nine other top players from Europe and America were also invited.
Hooper and Whyld call the first half of the 19th century the "golden age" of correspondence chess. [1] With travel difficult and expensive, chess clubs began to play games with distant clubs by mail. Examples of early matches were between Edinburgh and London from 1824–1828 and between Paris and various other cities in the 1830s and 1840s.
A homeless 8-year-old prodigy who dreams of becoming the world's youngest grandmaster has won the New York State chess championship.
Soltis learned how the chess pieces moved at age 10 when he came upon a how-to-play book in the public library in Astoria, Queens where he grew up. He took no further interest in the game until he was 14, when he joined an Astoria chess club, then the Marshall Chess Club and competed in his first tournament, the 1961 New York City Junior Championship.
Sidney Norman Bernstein (13 July 1911, in New York City – 30 January 1992, in New York City) was an American chess master. He tied for 2nd-4th in Marshall Chess Club Championship at New York 1930/31 ( Arthur Dake won), [ 1 ] tied for 6-7th in New York State Chess Championship at Rome 1931 ( Fred Reinfeld won). [ 2 ]