The Marshall Chess Club in New York City

New York City

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 is one of the oldest chess club

Chess club

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s in the United States, located in Greenwich Village

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. The club was formed in 1915 by a group of players led by Frank Marshall. It is a non-profit organization

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History

The Marshall Chess Club was a long-time rival of the Manhattan Chess Club

Manhattan Chess Club

The Manhattan Chess Club in Manhattan was the second-oldest chess club in the United States . The club was founded in 1877 and started with three dozen players; membership later reached into the hundreds before the club ended its existence in 2002...

, which ran from 1877 until 2002. The club had several temporary meeting places until it permanently moved to 23 West 10th Street in New York in 1931, where it occupies two floors of a townhouse that the club owns. Marshall was the leader of the club until his death in 1944, when his wife Caroline took over. Frank Brady was elected president in 2007.

Some of the members of the club have been Reuben Fine

Reuben Fine

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, Edmar Mednis

Edmar Mednis

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, James Sherwin

James Sherwin

James Terry Sherwin is an American corporate executive and International Master in chess.Born in New York City in 1933, Sherwin attended Stuyvesant High School, Columbia College and Columbia Law School. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Officer Candidate School in 1956 and later...

, Larry Evans

Larry Evans

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, Andy Soltis, Anthony Santasiere

Anthony Santasiere

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, Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld

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, Arthur Dake

Arthur Dake

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, Albert Simonson

Albert Simonson

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, Herbert Seidman

Herbert Seidman

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, Stanley Kubrick

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, Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru Nakamura

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, Howard Stern

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, Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

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, and Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Luigi Caruana is Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.On 15 July 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days – the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States.In the November 2011...

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The club has been the site of several rounds of the U.S. Chess Championship

U.S. Chess Championship

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 and Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

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 played in the 1965 Capablanca Memorial Tournament being held in Havana, Cuba via teletype. The Game of the Century

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was also played there.