Career
His main base was the Stuyvesant Chess Club, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Denker called Treysman the best odds-giver at chess in the United States. He played very little formal tournament chess in his life, except for a brief period in the mid-1930s, when he was already 55 years old.
Treysman"s chess style and escapades were also described in the book The World of Chess, by Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing, published by Random House, New York 1974.
Lessing, himself a Master who faced Treysman many times and knew him well, credits him as a formidable player, and a great character. When the inaugural rating list for the United States Chess Federation was published in 1950, Treysman was rated 2521, which was higher than young star Larry Evans (2484).
Treysman suffered with throat cancer for the last portion of his life, and died of this disease in 1959.
