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photos courtesy of Memphis Chess Club<br />
Memphis Chess<br />
Club History<br />
1877<br />
1907<br />
1914<br />
The Memphis Chess Club is founded by a group<br />
of local businessmen led by Dudley Saunders, the<br />
club's first President. The MCC meets in various<br />
locations, including the historic Exchange Building<br />
and Downtown YMCA, now their neighbors along<br />
Madison Avenue.<br />
Memphis Chess Club co-hosts the World Chess<br />
Championship match between Emanuel Lasker<br />
and Frank <strong>Mar</strong>shall, with games in the Chamber of<br />
Commerce on Monroe Avenue.<br />
MCC President Bradford Jefferson wins the Western<br />
Open, receiving two sterling trophies now displayed<br />
in the MCC headquarters. Bradford's sister, Rosa<br />
Jefferson, edits a chess column in the Memphis<br />
Commercial Appeal from 1903 until the early 1930s.<br />
Western Open aka 15th U.S. Open in Memphis TN at Business Men's Club (1914)<br />
1978<br />
2020<br />
The MCC hosts the U. S. Junior Championship at<br />
Memphis State University (now the University of<br />
Memphis).<br />
After years of planning, Casey Hill and club officers<br />
Jonathan Wade, Alex King, and Gary Pylant<br />
reinvent the MCC as a full-service chess club and<br />
cafe located at 195 Madison Avenue—returning<br />
downtown where it all started!<br />
* Compiled from the research of MCC Historian Dwight Weaver.<br />
INTO CHESS?<br />
Check out the Memphis<br />
Chess Club Newsletter<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>+<strong>Apr</strong> <strong>2024</strong> | focuslgbt.com | Nerd 17
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