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On Chess: Eight Super Grandmasters Turn Into Coaches And Have Fun Skewering Each Other - St. Louis Public Radio

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:00
On Chess: Eight Super Grandmasters Turn Into Coaches And Have Fun Skewering Each Other  St. Louis Public Radio

It is a question commonly posed to Grandmasters -- business-suit wearing giants with perennially furrowed brows, constantly wrinkled above troubled looks.

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On Chess: Eight Super Grandmasters Turn Into Coaches And Have Fun Skewering Each Other - St. Louis Public Radio

Thu, 09/11/2014 - 02:00
On Chess: Eight Super Grandmasters Turn Into Coaches And Have Fun Skewering Each Other  St. Louis Public Radio

It is a question commonly posed to Grandmasters -- business-suit wearing giants with perennially furrowed brows, constantly wrinkled above troubled looks.

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Chess Club of St. Louis to host Sinquefield Cup - fox2now.com

Wed, 08/27/2014 - 10:59

Chess Club of St. Louis to host Sinquefield Cup
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Some of the chess world's best have come to town for the Sinquefield Cup. World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway will also be in attendance. The Sinquefield Cup is named for St. Louis businessman and philanthropist, Rex Sinquefield. He donated ...
2014 Sinquefield Cup, starting Wednesday, to break record for highest-rated ...St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
Chess championship gets underway in St. Louis Wednesdaykplr11.com
Big guns get big fan welcome for tournament at Central West End chess clubSTLtoday.com

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World Chess Hall of Fame | - World Chess Hall of Fame |

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 16:31
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On Missouri taxes and education policies, Rex Sinquefield’s clout is growing - Kansas City Star

Sat, 07/19/2014 - 02:00
On Missouri taxes and education policies, Rex Sinquefield’s clout is growing  Kansas City Star

When Rep. Nate Walker started seeing ads questioning his conservative bona fides pop up in his rural northeast Missouri district, he knew exactly what was ...

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King Rex - POLITICO Magazine

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 10:35
King Rex  POLITICO Magazine

Rex Sinquefield amassed a fortune by doing nothing. Well, not exactly: In the 1970s, he pioneered the first index funds, investment vehicles that strictly track a ...

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King Rex - Politico

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 10:35

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King Rex
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Rex Sinquefield amassed a fortune by doing nothing. Well ... He's taken a decidedly activist view of how to spend his money advancing his idiosyncratic passions: promoting chess, dismantling the traditional public school system and eliminating income ...

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Top Stories, Videos & Photos - POLITICO Magazine

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 10:35

Top Stories, Videos & Photos
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Rex Sinquefield amassed a fortune by doing nothing. Well ... He's taken a decidedly activist view of how to spend his money advancing his idiosyncratic passions: promoting chess, dismantling the traditional public school system and eliminating income ...

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Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri's Schools - PR Watch

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 10:06

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Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri's Schools
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You've probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you may not have heard of Rex Sinquefield. Unlike the Koch Brothers, who made their money the old-fashioned way, by inheriting it, ...

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Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri's Schools - PR Watch

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 02:00
Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri's Schools  PR Watch

You've probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you may not have heard of Rex Sinquefield.

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How Rex Sinquefield turned St. Louis into 'hotbed' for chess - St. Louis Business Journal (blog)

Mon, 04/28/2014 - 16:57

How Rex Sinquefield turned St. Louis into 'hotbed' for chess
St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
American entrepreneurialism, such as that exhibited by St. Louis' own Rex Sinquefield, has helped put a check on Russia's preeminence in the game of chess, according to a column in Monday's Wall Street Journal. The Soviet Union dominated the game of ...

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How Rex Sinquefield turned St. Louis into 'hotbed' for chess - St. Louis Business Journal

Mon, 04/28/2014 - 02:00
How Rex Sinquefield turned St. Louis into 'hotbed' for chess  St. Louis Business Journal

American entrepreneurialism, such as that exhibited by St. Louis' own Rex Sinquefield, has helped put a check on Russia's preeminence in the game of chess.

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