Frank Street Jr.
| Frank Street Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Born | 1943 (age 82–83) Washington, D.C. |
| Title | National Master |
| FIDE rating | 2245 (January 1982) |
| Peak rating | 2265 (January 1979) |
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Frank Street Jr. (born 1943) is an American chess player who won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1965. He was a member of the Takoma Park Chess Club, a club featuring notable members such as Larry Kaufman and Larry Gilden. In the 1960s, Street Jr. was seen as a pioneer for Black chess players in the Washington, D.C. area, along with National Masters Walter Harris and Ken Clayton.
Street became a USCF Master in 1965.[1] He initially received recognition by winning the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1965, which earned him the title of a chess master, the second African-American player in history to achieve the title.[2] For many years thereafter[quantify] he held the highest rating among African-American players. He also defeated Ken Clayton and won the club championship at the Washington Chess Divan, a premier chess club. Street was the second African-American chess player to earn the National Master title after Harris. His picture was on the cover of the June 1965 issue of Chess Life magazine.[3]
He studied mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles and engineering at University of Maryland, College Park. He had a career in the space and satellite industry at NASA from 1974 to 2008.[4]
References
- ↑ "US Chess MSA - Member Details: Frank Street Jr". uschess.org. US Chess Federation. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ↑ Abron, Michael (2022). The Chess Traveler and Pioneer. United States: Covenant Books, Incorporated. Search this book on
- ↑ "U. S. Amateur" (PDF). Chess Life. Vol. XX no. 5. June 1965.
- ↑ Shabazz, Daaim (February 24, 2022). "Black History Month 2022-Day 24: Frank Street". The Chess Drum. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
External links
- Frank Street rating card at FIDELua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Frank Street FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
- The Rising of the Black Star 2007.
- Black Chess Masters 2007.
- Chess Life Magazine.
- National Master Frank Street Jr.
- The Chess Drum A sketch of the legendary Frank Street.
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