Marshall Chess Club

The Marshall Chess Club in New York is one of the leading chess clubs in the United States. He was traditionally in competition with the older Manhattan Chess Club, which no longer exists since 2002.

The establishment of the Marshall Chess Club goes back to a circle of players around Frank Marshall. In 1915, the merger was completed under the initial name " Marshall 's Chess Divan ", 1922, the club was officially registered.

His best-known members were next to Marshall Edward Lasker, Hans Kmoch, Anthony Santasiere, Fred Reinfeld, Arthur Dake, Gisela Gresser, Reuben Fine, Larry Evans and Edmar Mednis. The early 1950s was also Stanley Kubrick briefly a member. His current members heard Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.

In the early years the club had initially changing rooms. 1921 bought the club a home in the 127 West 12th Street, but fell during the Great Depression in financial difficulties and had to sell it again. In 1931, he was with the support of the patron Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer 's permanent seat in the 23 West 10th Street. The inauguration of the premises took place in the presence of the former world champion José Raúl Capablanca on 19 December 1931. The Marshall Chess Club is the owner of the building where two floors are used for the chess club. Marshall lived in a small apartment on the ground floor and led the club until his death in November 1944, after which his widow Caroline († 1971), the club's management. Since 2007, the chess journalist Frank Brady has served as Chairman.

In the rooms of the club many chess events took place, including multiple American Chess Championship. From here, took Bobby Fischer, who could not travel to Cuba for political reasons in 1965 by Telegraph on Capablanca Memorial Tournament, Havana part.