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...
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affiliate of the United States Chess Federation. The Marshall Chess Club was a long-time rival of the Manhattan Chess Club, a club which existed from 1877 to...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
York, both the Marshall and Manhattan chess clubs conducted victory celebrations, and he was lauded as America's new chess hero." Wade & O'Connell 1973...
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the Marshall Chess Club and the Manhattan Chess Club, with the exception of round 8, which was played at the London Terrace chess club. Edward Lasker...
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Jay Bonin (category American chess players)
professional chess master in New York. 1997 was a successful year for Bonin as he won four club championships: Marshall Chess Club, Manhattan Chess Club, Nassau...
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José Raúl Capablanca (category 20th-century Cuban chess players)
he joined the Manhattan Chess Club, and was soon recognized as the club's strongest player. He was particularly dominant in rapid chess, winning a tournament...
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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...
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Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is...
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according to some of the psychiatrists who are regulars at the Manhattan Chess Club, is a paranoid and is 'psychotically suspicious, like most paranoids'...
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Abraham Kupchik (category Jewish chess players)
to the US in 1903. He was an accountant by profession. He won the Manhattan Chess Club Championship ten times outright and once shared. In 1915, he tied...
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Reinfeld, Wellmuth, and Napier. Isaac Kashdan vs. Buster Horneman, Manhattan Chess Club 1930 (remove White's queen rook) 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Qg4...
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Bruce Pandolfini (category American chess players)
director of the Manhattan Chess Club, then at Carnegie Hall, a position he retained until 1987. It was from the platform of the Manhattan Chess Club that Pandolfini...
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Asa Hoffmann (redirect from ChessDude1943)
He was vice president of the Manhattan Chess Club. He was a member of the board of governors of the Marshall Chess Club in New York City. A colorful figure...
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (category Chess in the United States)
was defeated by Jeff at the Manhattan Chess Club. In November of the same year, Josh returned to the Manhattan Chess Club and beat him in a rematch. The...
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William Lombardy (category Chess Grandmasters)
England Championship, and, shortly thereafter, gave a lecture at the Manhattan Chess Club in which he analyzed the game: Lombardy–Lyman, New England Championship...
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Events in chess during the year 2002: The Manhattan Chess Club closes. Founded in 1877, it was the second oldest chess club in the United States. FIDE...
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Peninsula in the 1940s and 1950s. American chess expert and adventurer Albert Pincus, a Manhattan Chess Club member who innovated the 2 Knights Defense...
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Sylvia Miles (category Actresses from Manhattan)
1960s and the 1970s she often played chess at a competitive level and was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club. Miles died on June 12, 2019, while en...
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Oscar Tenner (category Jewish chess players)
then emigrated to the United States. He played many times in the Manhattan Chess Club Championship and other tournaments in New York. He tied for 4-5th...
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Carmine Nigro (category American chess players)
Bobby and Bill goes back to 1956 in which they are analyzing at the Manhattan Chess Club. Donaldson & Tangborn 1999, p. 45. "Pawn Sacrifice". The Internet...
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Harold Meyer Phillips (category American chess players)
1967) was an American chess player and chess life organizer. Phillips was a lawyer by profession. In 1903, he won Manhattan Chess Club Championship. He was...
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Stanley Kubrick (category Artists from Manhattan)
supplemented his income by playing chess "for quarters" in Washington Square Park and various Manhattan chess clubs. In 1946, he became an apprentice photographer...
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Ruy Lopez, Marshall Attack (category Chess openings)
famous games in history" by Chessbase Chess News, is Capablanca vs. Marshall, played in 1918 at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York. Since its debut, many...
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Abe Turner (category Chess players from New York City)
play chess for ten cents an hour. Fischer also attended the club and was a student of Turner's. Turner placed second in the Manhattan Chess Club championship...
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Albert Fox (category American chess players)
won). He played for the Manhattan Chess Club in cable matches against Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia, and Chicago Chess Club in 1904–1906, and twice...
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Julius Finn (category Jewish chess players)
Metropolitan Chess Club. He won thrice the New York State Championship (1901, 1907, 1908), and won the Rice Gambit tournament at the Manhattan Chess Club in 1903...
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becoming a rising star. At age 14, he tied for 4th–5th place in the Marshall Chess Club championship. The next year he won it outright, becoming the youngest...
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Max Pavey (category 20th-century American chess players)
Chess Champion's first attempt at serious chess; Pavey won in about a quarter of an hour. In 1954, he took third in the New York Manhattan Chess Club...
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Hartwig Cassel (category American chess players)
between the Manhattan Chess Club and the British Chess Club in 1895, the forerunner of the Anglo-American series. He was the inventor of a chess cable code...
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Hans Kmoch (category Austrian chess players)
manager of the Manhattan Chess Club, and directed tournaments. He also wrote for Chess Review, then one of the leading American chess magazines. In 1956...
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