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Chess King was an American men's clothing retailer created by the Melville Corporation. From its founding in 1968, it grew to over 500 locations by the mid-1980s, before an eventual decline, sale, and closure of the chain in 1995.
Chess King – sold to Merry-Go-Round in 1993; liquidated along with that chain in 1995; Christopher & Banks – bankrupted in 2021 from financial loss, because of the COVID-19 pandemic; County Seat – founded in 1973, the denim-focused mall retailer expanded in the 1980s to nearly 500 stores. It filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and shuttered ...
Chess King (sold to Merry-Go-Round in 1993; defunct as of 1995) Chess King Garage; Foxmoor (sold in 1985; [5] purchased by Edison Brothers Stores in 1990; [6] closed in Edison Brothers liquidation in 1999) Free Fall; Putnam Stores; Melville executives in 1971
In May 1993, it purchased the Chess King clothing chain from the Melville Corporation. [4] It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1994 and began liquidation sales by February 1996. [ 5 ] At its end, the company operated just over 500 locations, [ 3 ] primarily in enclosed malls .
Defunct consumer electronics retailers in the United States (36 P) Defunct department stores of the United States (6 C, 5 P) Defunct discount stores of the United States (1 C, 102 P)
By the 1980s, Melville was still the largest footwear retailer in the US. The company had diversified to add such chains as Chess King, Foxmoor and CVS Pharmacy. It began to phase out six of its seven footwear factories in 1983, and in 1985 it closed 72 Thom McAn outlets. In 1988, it purchased the athletic shoe chain FootAction. [1]
The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjoining square; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook , a special move called castling . If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check , and the player must remove the threat of capture immediately.
A contramatic king can move to a square adjacent to the enemy orthodox king (since the orthodox king may be checked as in normal chess, and the contramatic king may put itself into check). But an orthodox king may not move adjacent to the enemy contramatic king (since it is not allowed to check an opponent's contramatic king, or to put one's ...