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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.
May 15, 2022 · There's Morphy in 1858, Pillsbury in 1895, Capablanca in 1911, Fischer in 1958 - and one can add to that list Reshevsky and Fine in 1935 and Frank Marshall at Paris in 1900. Marshall was born in New York in 1877, spent most of his childhood in Montreal, but became the epitome of New York chess.
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Aug 24, 2023 · Aug 24, 2023, 11:51 AM | 2. 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 in the conversation of ...
Jul 6, 2007 · Updated: Jul 6, 2007, 8:09 AM | 1 | Chess Players. Frank James Marshall was born on the west side of Manhattan on August 10, 1877. He was taken to Montreal when he was 8 years old and lived there for 11 years. He learned the game of chess at age 10 from his father, Alfred.
Mar 15, 2018 · Born in 1877 in New York City, his family moved to Montreal, Canada when Frank was 8 and lived there for 11 years. 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.
Apr 21, 2018 · 1923 was a do or die time for Marshall. The Metropolitan Chess League games were dragging him down due to the poor competition. He was 45 years old. He owned the U.S. championship for 14 years, and Edward Lasker (age 37) wanted a match for the title.
1937. Collection of the World Chess Hall of Fame, gift of Richard Kashdan. (1877-1944) U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Inducted 1986 Frank Marshall enjoyed the longest and most untroubled reign of any U.S. Champion from the time he earned and accepted the title in 1909 until he resigned it in 1936. In 1909, he was defeated in a match by a young Jose ...
