Game Collection: US Chess Clubs and Events
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History

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To Chess Players—A few Gentlemen, who are desirous of forming a Chess Club, would be glad to receive an accession to their number. Any gentlemen wishing to join them, will please leave their names with Mr. Parkes, at the desk of the office of this paper, any time during one week from date.
September 16, 1852.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1852.09.16, p2
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The Brooklyn Chess Club.—The second annual reunion of this flourishing society, took place last Thursday evening, when the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year:—Walter K. Paye, President; Robert M. Jenkins, Secretary. The President, in the course of a few remarks, alluded to the attention bestowed upon chess within a few years past throughout Europe. He also commented upon the advantages conferred upon members in the cultivation of a taste for this refined recreation; in view of which he was happy to refer to the prosperous condition of the club; and if the past was a guarantee for the future, he felt assured that the society would soon take its place as one of the institutions of our city.

A committee was appointed to select a suitable room for the accommodation of the club, which will be furnished in the neatest manner and provided with the proper requsites (sic). We understand that it is their intention to have it open to members, upon one evening in every week, for contests.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1853.05.31, p2
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Game Collection: US Chess Clubs and Events