Manhattan Chess Club

The Manhattan Chess Club, based in New York was a traditional chess club in the United States, which for decades held a leadership role in American chess. He scored two world chess champion to its members and is closely connected with the history of chess.

The constitution of the chess club took place in November 1877 in the central district of Manhattan. In the years 1890 and 1891 the world championship fight between Wilhelm Steinitz and Isidor Gunsberg was held in club rooms. 1905 joined the Cuban world champion José Raúl later Capablanca at the club, where he remained always connected. The Manhattan Chess Club was host to the famous New York chess tournaments between 1924 and 1927; they were won by Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca. On March 7, 1942 Capablanca suffered in the club house, as he watched a game, a stroke, the consequences of which he died the next day. Among the chess masters, the Chess Club experienced their rise in Manhattan, Samuel Reshevsky, Bobby Fischer, who was a club member since 1955, William Lombardy and Arnold were thinkers.

Although the Manhattan Chess Club changed hands several times during its history his venue, he possessed in good times several hundred members. Multiple of the club hosted the American national championship. The club championship was one of the traditionally outstanding chess tournaments in the United States.

As several Wall Street manager died, who provided the relevant club sponsors, financial existence was threatened. Making matters worse was that the " American Chess Foundation " that owns the building in which the club had its seat, fell into the hands of non- chess players. Thus, the final phase began in the history of the famous clubs. The lease was terminated, and although the club temporarily found a new venue in a hotel in 2001, the organizational problems proved unsolvable. Finally, the Manhattan Chess Club introduced in January 2002 after 124 years of existence ceases activity.