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How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance - Forbes Now
The St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center has a pretty humble beginning. After retiring and moving back to his Missouri home, financier (and Forbes ...
Making A Living In Chess Is Tough - But The Internet Is Making It Easier - Forbes
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"Our top ten or twenty players in the world don't have to do anything but play chess," says Rex Sinquefield. He's the founder of the St. Louis Chess Club, which hosts the U.S. Chess Championship. "They can earn a very good living. I mean, I'm talking a ...
Making A Living In Chess Is Tough - But The Internet Is Making It Easier - Forbes
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Forbes
"Our top ten or twenty players in the world don't have to do anything but play chess," says Rex Sinquefield. He's the founder of the St. Louis Chess Club, which hosts the U.S. Chess Championship. "They can earn a very good living. I mean, I'm talking a ...
Making A Living In Chess Is Tough - But The Internet Is Making It Easier - Forbes
Chess grandmasters talk about the tough road to making a living playing the game of Kings - and how the internet has been opening up opportunities.
Making A Living In Chess Is Tough - But The Internet Is Making It Easier - Forbes Now
Chess grandmasters talk about the tough road to making a living playing the game of Kings - and how the internet has been opening up opportunities.
How St Louis became America's chess capital - The Economist (blog)
The Economist (blog)
The Economist (blog)
The rise of St Louis as a centre for chess dates to 2008, when Rex Sinquefield chose the promotion of chess in his home town as a retirement project after making a fortune pioneering stockmarket index funds. (Mr Sinquefield is also politically active ...
The Economist explainsHow St Louis became America's chess capital - The Economist (blog)
The Economist (blog)
The Economist (blog)
The rise of St Louis as a centre for chess dates back to 2008, when Rex Sinquefield chose the promotion of chess in his hometown as a retirement project after making a fortune pioneering stock-market index funds. (Mr Sinquefield is also politically ...
How St Louis became America’s chess capital - The Economist
The Economist explains How St Louis became America’s chess capital - The Economist
ST LOUIS is a troubled, shrinking city in the American Midwest. Its population peaked at 850000 in the 1950s. Decades of middle-class flight have left it with only ...
How St Louis became America's chess capital - The Economist
ST LOUIS is a troubled, shrinking city in the American Midwest. Its population peaked at 850000 in the 1950s. Decades of middle-class flight have left it with only ...
How St Louis became America’s chess capital - The Economist
ST LOUIS is a troubled, shrinking city in the American Midwest. Its population peaked at 850000 in the 1950s. Decades of middle-class flight have left it with only ...
Messenger: Is St. Louis leaving the future of its airport to a coin flip? - STLtoday.com
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The agreement has been presented to the public as a deal with nonprofit Grow Missouri — funded by retired investor and chess philanthropist Rex Sinquefield — and the city, with Sinquefield paying the costs of the city's attempt to investigate ...
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis/Lennart Ootes. Rex Sinquefield, an average club player, founded the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis and has contributed tens of millions of dollars to make it one of the best-known clubs in ...
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players - Minneapolis Star Tribune
ST. LOUIS – For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union dominated international chess competitions. Now the center of the chess world has shifted to the ...
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players - Star Tribune
ST. LOUIS – For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union dominated international chess competitions. Now the center of the chess world has shifted to the ...
The Sublime Moves Of America's New Chess Champion - FiveThirtyEight
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But he added: “If I ever become a world champion, I will glorify Him in that way.” After the final game, he thanked his parents, U.S. chess benefactor Rex Sinquefield and God. Chess is a lonely pursuit, he explained, and that trinity provides his ...
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