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[imagefield_assist|fid=1723|preset=frontpage_200x200|lightbox=true|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=200]SAINT LOUIS -- The final field is set for the 2010 World Team Championship, and the United States will have to overcome some stiff opposition if it hopes to medal at this prestigious international event.

The 2010 World Team Championship, scheduled to be held Jan. 4 - 13 in Bursa, Turkey, will pit the top chess players from 10 different countries against one another in a round-robin tournament. Along with the organizing country, Turkey, continental champions Russia, Brazil, China and Egypt all earned an automatic bid to the tournament. China had a late withdrawal, however, so India is slated ...

[imagefield_assist|fid=1726|preset=frontpage_200x200|title=|desc=|link=none|origsize=|align=left|width=200|height=200]SAINT LOUIS, Oct. 31, 2009 – The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis agreed to  sponsor the U.S. team in the 2010 World Team Chess Championship being held Jan. 4-13 in Bursa, Turkey.

“One of the primary purposes of the Chess Club is to promote top-level chess," said Tony Rich, Executive Director of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. " What better way to do that than by sponsoring the U.S. team in this international event.”

Chess for Life, the partnership program between the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, is in need of volunteers to help bring chess to patients and their families. The program is designed to provide a welcome escape in a time of extreme duress. Chess for Life provides chess tables, boards and pieces, along with volunteers who will play and offer instruction. In addition, Siteman patients will be able to access a website allowing them to play with other people or a computer.

The Friday Action Quads made its triumphant return following the Women's Championship.  Fourteen fierce competitors slugged it out in three sections.  In the top quad, Jialin Ding and Kevin Cao, two of Saint Louis' best scholastic players, finished with 2.5/3.0 (drawing each other) to split the $36 prize.  In quad 2, Namit Gaur dominated the field, going undefeated with a perfect 3.0/3.0 performance for clear first.  The bottom section featured a six-player Swiss in which unrated Filippo Massari's 2.5/3.0 was good enough for the clear $36 first place prize.