Shooting star: The story of Mexico’s first chess Grandmaster

Shooting star: The story of Mexico’s first chess Grandmaster

While traveling aboard a Cunard liner to play in his first big European chess tournaments in March 1925, young phenom Carlos Torre Repetto kept his game sharp by playing with Frank Marshall, the man for whom the Marshall Chess Club in New York City was named and the then-reigning U.S. champion. In one still-legendary game from this trip, he beat Marshall in seven moves with the black pieces, an astonishing feat.  He had his moments at his first …