Plaques for and places named after chess players

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Are there many plaques and monuments to chess players? I have one example (below) of a chess player being commemorated by a room named after him (though the chess element probably was not the reason, he was a very senior civil servant).

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That is the Milner Barry Room at the Civil Service Club in Central London, the name being that of Stuart Milner Barry (1906-1995).

https://www.civilserviceclub.org.uk/meetings/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Milner-Barry

I suppose memorial tournaments for chess players are kore common. Lots of examples of those. I know there is also a Tigran Petrosian Chess House (club) in Yerevan.

[John Townsend]

Howard Staunton's former residence, 117 Lansdowne Road (Notting Hill), is a blue plaque site. The dates are incorrect, since it reads 1871-1874, whereas he actually lived there from 1872 to 1874, though I see that English Heritage has corrected its website in that respect.

The Marshall Chess Club, in New York City, is named after Frank J. Marshall.

[JustinHorton]

I think we may find a lot of chess venues are named after chess players

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I did not make it clear from the thread title, but was hoping also for examples of statues of chess players. There is a carved relief of Alekhine on his grave marker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alekhine_tombe.jpg

This is the Tigran Petrosian Chess House:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigran_Pe ... hess_House

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... ian_01.JPG

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I found this blog on chess statues:

https://danamackenzie.com/blog/?p=944

They only found three: Max Euwe (Amsterdam), Mikhail Tal (Riga) and Tigran Petrosian (Yerevan).

I think Paul Keres is immortalised on a stamp.

I have dragged my own thread off topic.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Back on topic, an earlier thread on blue plaques from 2020 (the thread, not the plaques):

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=10757

[John Townsend]

I wonder how many chessplayers have models at Madame Tussaud's.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"I think Paul Keres is immortalised on a stamp."

So are others...

[Geoff Chandler]

Keres is on a banknote (so is Petrosian) Keres also has a ship named after him. Korchnoi was race horse.https://www.racingsa.com.au/horse/389402

There is a plaque to Johnny Marr in the Edinburgh Chess Club. I put it there. (with the club's permission)

[Christopher Kreuzer]

"I think Paul Keres is immortalised on a stamp."

So are others...

I had managed to miss this Edward Winter page on the topic (which made for pleasant reading):

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/stamps.html

Daniël De Mol (Wetteren, Belgium) now draws our attention to a number of errors on stamps with a chess theme. Some are obvious misspellings, such as ‘Kaprov’ on a 1991 stamp from Niger and ‘Andersen’ on one from Kampuchea issued in 1986. In 1988 Guinea-Bissau produced a stamp with a portrait of ‘Fracois’ Philidor, whereas in 1982 Chad put ‘Jean-Paul’ Capablanca. Top prize, however, must go to Guinea. In 1998 it brought out a stamp labelled ‘Paul Morphy’; no spelling mistakes, but the accompanying picture was of Boris Spassky.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Chris,

This one still raises a smile, apparently it is a genuine error, (not a joke which at first I thought it was.)
one wonders how it slipped through.

[John Upham]

Does this one fulfil your criteria?


The William Ritson Morry memorial bench: I'm sure I noticed a whiff of cigar smoke!

The William Ritson Morry memorial bench: I'm sure I noticed a whiff of cigar smoke!

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William Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)

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[John Upham]

or perhaps this one?




In memory of Harry Golombek OBE presented by Hastings International Chess Congress

In memory of Harry Golombek OBE presented by Hastings International Chess Congress

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Harry Golombek OBE

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[John Townsend]

On the subject of statues, see this feature article by Edward Winter:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... pture.html.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

On the subject of statues, see this feature article by Edward Winter:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... pture.html.

Excellent, though it needs the addition of material on the Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian statues/sculptures.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... n_Riga.jpg

[John Upham]

Plaque erected in 1999 by English Heritage at 117 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 2LF, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Howard Staunton: Plaque erected in 1999 by English Heritage at 117 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 2LF, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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