via News5:
Did you know? Cleveland is home to the largest chess collection in the entire world.
One-of-a-kind chess sets, unique manuscripts, scorecards from chess greats like Bobby Fischer.
It is all housed on the third floor of the Cleveland Public Library, in the special collections room , and has been there since the library opened in 1925.
So why Cleveland?
We can thank John G. White, one of the library’s founding donors and board members back in the early 1900s. White was an avid chess collector and had amassed one of the largest private collections in the world, which he donated to the library.
“And we’ve kept with his collecting habit and we now have the world’s largest collection of chess material, period,” explained Raymond Rozman, Special Collections Librarian. “It is an interesting, fascinating little world.”
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