St. Louis AND Chess
Checkmate Me In St Louis - BBC News
BBC News
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 ...
On Chess: Ultimate blitz chess match results in ultimate generosity - St. Louis Public Radio
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 Business Journal
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 ...
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
St. Louis University looks to challenge SPICE - Webster Journal
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
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 ...
American chess preparing for serious battle with Russia, China and India - The Guardian
The Guardian
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 ...
American chess preparing for serious battle with Russia, China and India - The Guardian
The Guardian
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 ...
USA Championship - BusinessWorld Online Edition
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 ...
Chess' 1st black grandmaster enters Hall of Fame in St. Louis - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Editorial: Short Takes on the newest name in Texas education, a no-brainer helmet law and other items in the news - STLtoday.com
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STLtoday.com
... 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 ...
St. Louis earnings tax issue has turned political friends into foes. - STLtoday.com
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STLtoday.com
Brown said he has met with Slay and his staff at Sinquefield's farm, the posh St. Louis Racquet Club and Sinquefield's chess club to discuss ways to reduce the city's reliance on the tax. Those discussions have produced few results, he said. Slay said ...
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St. Louis earnings tax heads to voters - STLtoday.com
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STLtoday.com
Rex Sinquefield, a multimillionaire stock market pioneer, is adamantly against it. Sinquefield is Slay's largest campaign donor, adding to the political intrigue. “I'm not beholden to any donor,” Slay said last month. Sinquefield is a longtime opponent ...
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Sergey Karjakin to face Magnus Carlsen after victory at Moscow Candidates - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
It will certainly not be the US chess Maecenas Rex Sinquefield, who has made his home city of St Louis one of the major international centres for the game, and who bankrolled Garry Kasparov's abortive 2014 election campaign against Ilyumzhinov.
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