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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).
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.

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.

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

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
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.

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

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=10757

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