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Cardinals notes: Adams suffers leg injury - STLtoday.com

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 05/05/2016 - 23:33

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Cardinals notes: Adams suffers leg injury
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... playing chess rather than absently playing video games. “It activates your mind instead of you just playing with your phone,” said Tyler Lyons. Rex Sinquefield, a close friend of Matheny's who had opened the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St ...

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Cardinals notes: Adams suffers leg injury - STLtoday.com

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 05/05/2016 - 23:33

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Cardinals notes: Adams suffers leg injury
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... playing chess rather than absently playing video games. “It activates your mind instead of you just playing with your phone,” said Tyler Lyons. Rex Sinquefield, a close friend of Matheny's who had opened the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St ...

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St. Louis Cardinals' latest training technique: chess - ESPN (blog)

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 05/05/2016 - 13:47

ESPN (blog)

St. Louis Cardinals' latest training technique: chess
ESPN (blog)
It was a gift from the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, an organization founded by Cards manager Mike Matheny's friend Rex Sinquefield, a local philanthropist and political activist. Matheny said he picked up chess when he researched how ...

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Cardinals' latest training technique: chess - ESPN (blog)

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 05/05/2016 - 13:23

ESPN (blog)

Cardinals' latest training technique: chess
ESPN (blog)
It was given to the team by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, an organization founded by manager Mike Matheny's friend, local philanthropist and political activist Rex Sinquefield. Matheny said he picked up chess when he researched how ...

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Checkmate Me In St Louis - BBC News

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 05/05/2016 - 07:45

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Checkmate Me In St Louis
BBC News
The city has become a world centre for the game of chess. Its status has partly been achieved by funding from a controversial multi-millionaire, whose childhood included time in an orphanage. Rex Sinquefield is well known for his fascination with the ...

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On Chess: Ultimate blitz chess match results in ultimate generosity - St. Louis Public Radio

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 05/05/2016 - 05:24

On Chess: Ultimate blitz chess match results in ultimate generosity
St. Louis Public Radio
In what could easily be considered the most anticipated blitz event in the world, Garry Kasparov was summoned by the patriarch of modern chess, Rex Sinquefield, to take on the best players in American chess and arguably in the world. It was an exciting ...

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St. Louisan crowned U.S. chess champion - St. Louis Business Journal

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Fri, 04/29/2016 - 07:43

St. Louis Business Journal

St. Louisan crowned U.S. chess champion
St. Louis Business Journal
"Nobody had any idea St. Louis could become a chess hub," Caruana told the New Yorker. The publication recounts the "unlikely" shift of the chess epicenter to St. Louis through the efforts of retired financial executive and political donor Rex ...

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 16:14

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest
The New Yorker
The American chess player—and second-ranked player in the world—Fabiano Caruana (right) in a match against the Russian player Sergey Karjakin at the Candidates Cup, last month. ... The unlikely shift can be attributed almost entirely to the efforts ...

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 02:00
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 02:00
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 02:00
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 02:00
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 04/28/2016 - 02:00
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest  The New Yorker

Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.

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St. Louis University looks to challenge SPICE - Webster Journal

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Wed, 04/27/2016 - 14:54

St. Louis University looks to challenge SPICE
Webster Journal
Financial executive Rex Sinquefield is president and chairman of the board at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. He came up with the idea of starting the program. Sinquefield is also a member of SLU's board of trustees. SLU looks to ...

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Turnee la zi - Dilema veche

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Wed, 04/27/2016 - 07:50

Turnee la zi
Dilema veche
Saint Louis, unul dintre numeroasele orașe numite după sfîntul rege Ludovic al IX-lea al Franței, a devenit un pol al șahului american și nu numai de cînd magnatul Rex Sinquefield s-a decis să investească într-unul dintre cele mai luxoase cluburi de ...

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American chess preparing for serious battle with Russia, China and India - The Guardian

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Fri, 04/22/2016 - 13:12

The Guardian

American chess preparing for serious battle with Russia, China and India
The Guardian
American chess, bankrolled by the billionaire Maecenas Rex Sinquefield and with help from Garry Kasparov, is limbering up for a serious struggle with the game's other superpowers Russia, China and India. This weekend's final rounds of the $194,000 ...

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American chess preparing for serious battle with Russia, China and India - The Guardian

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Fri, 04/22/2016 - 13:12

The Guardian

American chess preparing for serious battle with Russia, China and India
The Guardian
American chess, bankrolled by the billionaire Maecenas Rex Sinquefield and with help from Garry Kasparov, is limbering up for a serious struggle with the game's other superpowers Russia, China and India. This weekend's final rounds of the $194,000 ...

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USA Championship - BusinessWorld Online Edition

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Wed, 04/20/2016 - 10:33

USA Championship
BusinessWorld Online Edition
In 2007, Rex Sinquefield, a private fund manager, put up the seed capital to open the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis with a mission to “maintain a formal program of instruction to teach the game of chess and to promote and support its ...

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Editorial: Short Takes on the newest name in Texas education, a no-brainer helmet law and other items in the news - STLtoday.com

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Fri, 04/08/2016 - 16:04

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Editorial: Short Takes on the newest name in Texas education, a no-brainer helmet law and other items in the news
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... students from 14 nations make up her 20-person squad. The win must have offered at least some comfort to local chess patron Rex Sinquefield, who took a 72-28 (percent) pounding Tuesday in his other favorite sport, trying to eliminate the city ...

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