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  1. Chess career. Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Canada, from age 8 to 19. He began playing chess at the age of 10, and by 1890 (aged 13) was one of the leading players in Montreal. Marshall (fifth from left) at the St. Louis tournament (1904), which he won. He won the 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress ...

  2. Aug 24, 2023 · A Century of Chess: Frank Marshall (from 1910-19) Frank Marshall started the 1910s with a bracingly clear sense of what his ceiling as a player was. In match play against the super-elite players of his era — Lasker, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Capablanca — he had a combined score of +4-27=33. That record meant that Marshall would never again be ...

  3. A Century of Chess: Frank Marshall (1900-1909) A quirk of chess history is the recurring figure of the lone American genius who travels to Europe and takes the continent by storm. This has happened more times, and had a more profound impact on chess, than one might expect. There's Morphy in 1858, Pillsbury in 1895, Capablanca in 1911, Fischer ...

  4. Mar 21, 2017 · In 1890 (age 13), he joined the Montreal Chess Club and was soon one of the leading chess players in Montreal. In 1892, only fourteen Marshall made his real debut in chess. On a visit to a French café with his father, Marshall defeated the best player. In 1936 after holding the U.S. championship title for 27 years.

  5. Mar 15, 2018 · Unlike today’s extremely young grandmasters, Marshall took quite a while to “cook.” He was only recognized as a proven master in his very early 20s when he won a tournament (1899) in London. This immediately gave him, as Marshall put it, an “international reputation.” 1893. 15-Year-Old Marshall Challenges Steinitz & Pillsbury

  6. Early life. Frank James Marshall was born in 1877 in New York. He began playing chess at the age of ten, and spent some of his early years in Montreal, Canada. The Montreal chess club proved a good place for the young Marshall to develop his chess, and he soon won the club championship. 1899 saw Marshall travel to London to win a minor tournament.

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  8. Marshall also founded what would become the still-running Marshall Chess Club, in New York. From Marshall's Best Games of Chess: One event…took on added importance as the years went on. This was the founding of Marshall’s Chess Divan at Keene’s Chop House, 70 West 36th Street, New York, in 1915.

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