Chess Professional
In 1904, he took 7th out of 10 players at the St. Louis (7th American Congress) with 5/11, as Frank James Marshall won. Jaffe defeated Jacques Mieses, a leading player, by 2-0 in a mini-match at New York 1907. In 1909, Jaffe took 3rd out of 6 players with 3/5 in a small tournament at Bath Beach, Brooklyn NY (Herbert Rosenfeld won). Also in 1909, Jaffe lost a match to Frank Marshall by a score 3.5-5.5 (+2 =3 -4). In 1911, he tied for 3rd-4th at New York, with 9/12 (Marshall won). After this career-best result, Charles Jaffe made his international debut at the Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament. There, he tied for 23rd-26th, with 8.5/25, out of 26 players. (Richard Teichmann won) In 1913, he took 3rd at New York (National), with 9.5/13, behind José Raúl Capablanca and Marshall. In 1913, he lost a match to Capablanca at New York by 0.5-2.5. In a later New York tournament that same year, Jaffe scored 0.5/6 to finish 4th out of 4 players, as Marshall won.
Jaffe was nicknamed "the Crown Prince of East Side Chess" by the poet and chessmaster Alfred Kreymborg. He often played at the Stuyvesant Chess Club, hangout of chess hustlers and interesting characters, which had many strong players, and was located on Manhattan's Lower East Side. "Jaffe was famous for his poverty", and "his style was "inimitably coffeehouse". Jaffe made much of his income through challenge games and odds games played there. The colorful atmosphere of the Club in that era was outlined by in the book The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories.
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