Manhattan Chess Club

The Manhattan Chess Club was the most prominent chess club in the United States for more than a century, until its closure in January 2002.^[1]

It helped produce two world chess champions: Jose Raul Capablanca and Bobby Fischer.

It opened in 1877 at the Cafe Logeling, 49 Bowery Street in lower Manhattan, and moved among various locations, including Carnegie Hall on the 10th floor in the 1980s, then the New Yorker Hotel in 2001, and finally its closure the following year.

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