Chess in New York City
editClubs and Teams
edit- New York Chess Club at 19 East Twelfth Street (as of 1857)
- Manhattan Chess Club (1877–2002)
- Brooklyn Chess Club (original from 1950s)[1]
- Brooklyn Chess Club (Canarsie) [2]
- Murrow high school team – from Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn, featured in The Kings of New York (2007)[3]
- Marshall Chess Club (1915 to current)
Events
editSeveral American Chess Congress were held in New York City. The first tournament was held from October to November 1857.[4]. Two more were held in New York: the fifth tournament in 1880 and sixthin 1889.
Hermann Helms helped organize two international grandmaster events held in the city: New York 1924 chess tournament and New York 1927 chess tournament.
Notable Players
edit- Fabiano Caruana aka CaruanaChess
- Isaac Kashdan (1905 – 1985) grandmaster, chess writer, twice winner of U.S. Open champion (1938, 1947)
- Hermann Helms (1870 – 1963 player, writer and promoter
- Frank Marshall (1877 – 1944) U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936
- Levy Rozman aka GothamChess
References
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- ^ Knafo, Saki (10 February 2008). "In the Land of Fischer, Dismay and Awe". The New York Times.
the club is in no way related to the Brooklyn Chess Club of the 1950s
"Mr. Fischer’s club of the same name, now defunct, was housed in a high-ceilinged room at the Brooklyn Academy of Music." - ^ "Brooklyn Chess Club". brooklynchessclub.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
- ^ Weinreb, Michael (2007). The kings of New York : a year among the geeks, oddballs, and geniuses who make up America's top high school chess team. New York : Gotham Books. ISBN 978-1-59240-261-8.
- ^ Gilberg, Charles (1881). The fifth American chess congress. Containing a full report of the proceedings of the convention of chess players, held in New York, in ... 1880 . New York, Brentano's literary emporium. p. 1.