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Creating the world's new chess capital - BBC News
BBC News
BBC News
Rex Sinquefield, a grey-haired man in his early 70s, is sitting in the audience watching the US Chess Championship. He's in his shorts, wearing a baseball cap, and fuelling his concentration with glass after glass of Diet Coke. Sinquefield is a rich ...
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Creating the world's new chess capital - BBC News
BBC News
BBC News
Rex Sinquefield, a grey-haired man in his early 70s, is sitting in the audience watching the US Chess Championship. He's in his shorts, wearing a baseball cap, and fuelling his concentration with glass after glass of Diet Coke. Sinquefield is a rich ...
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Cardinals bonding over chess in clubhouse - MLB.com
MLB.com
MLB.com
... coincidentally, that New Yorker Magazine recently described as the country's emerging chess hub. That's in large part to Rex Sinquefield, retired financial executive and president of the CCSCSL. He's also a friend of Matheny's, the two having met ...
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Cardinals notes: Adams suffers leg injury - STLtoday.com
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STLtoday.com
... 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
STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
... 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)
ESPN (blog)
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)
ESPN (blog)
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
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 ...