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Coordinates: 40.7341°N 73.9967°W. The entrance to the Marshall Chess Club at 23 West Tenth Street, Manhattan. The Marshall Chess Club, in Greenwich Village, New York City, is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. The club was formed in 1915 by a group of players led by Frank Marshall. It is a nonprofit organization and a gold ...
The Abraham Joshua Heschel School (AJHS) is a pluralistic nursery to 12th grade Jewish day school in New York City named in memory of Abraham Joshua Heschel, a major Jewish leader, teacher, and activist of the 20th century. [2] Other "Heschel Schools" are located in Los Angeles, California and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Height. 73.5 ft (22.4 m) Span. 30 ft (9.1 m) The Washington Square Arch, officially the Washington Arch, [1] is a marble memorial arch in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, [2] it commemorates the centennial of George Washington's 1789 ...
The club organized the New York international tournaments of 1924 (won by Emanuel Lasker) and 1927 (won by José Capablanca), frequently hosted rounds of the U.S. Chess Championship starting in the 1930s, and was the site of two World Championship matches in 1886 and 1891.
February 25, 1943 (age 81) New York City, New York, U.S. Title. FIDE Master (1981) Peak rating. 2365 (January 1982) Asa Hoffmann (born February 25, 1943) is a FIDE Master in chess, chess teacher and author from the United States of America. He is known as "the sparring partner of champions". [1] His peak regular USCF rating is 2471, his peak ...
The Metropolitan Club is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was originally founded as a gentlemen's club in 1891. The current building at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street was designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1893.
Liam Blackburn, left, plays a game of chest with Courtney Zajac during L.A. Chess Club's April 4 meetup. The pair met at the event the week prior and planned to meet at the next event.
One Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) / 40.732062; -73.996293. One Fifth Avenue is a residential skyscraper in the Washington Square area of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It was designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett of the firm Helme & Corbett.