Kirzhan built his ‘chess palace’ in Chess City. There is Queensland, Australia & Kingston, Jamaica. I recently learned that there is Sac City in Iowa. Anyone else know of any chess related named cities?
Larry Cohen
Shall I guess that you aren’t looking for bROOKfield, newCASTLE or CHESapeake?
Here’s a list of US cities with chess piece names. I’m leaving off ones like Kings Point NY, Queen City MO and Queens NY.
King CA
King NC
King WI
Queen NC
Queen PA
Bishop CA
Bishop GA
Bishop IL
Bishop MD
Bishop TX
Bishop VA
Knight IN
Rook PA
There’s also Crown King AZ, but let’s give that one to the checkers players.
Here are some chess terms cities:
Exchange PA
Exchange WV
Sac City IA
PA has Cambridge Springs, Wilkes-Barre, and Intercourse: what more could one want?
Don’t forget Bird In Hand.
PA also has the town of Blue Ball.
KING of Prussia, PA is the host city for this year’s World Open.