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By Mike Wilmering
This article was originally published on stlpublicradio.org on January 16.
It’s going to be another year of checkmates and championships in St. Louis.
On Wednesday, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis announced that the United States Chess Federation had accepted its bid to host the 2014 U.S. Championship, the 2014 U.S. Women’s Championship and the 2014 U.S. Junior Closed Championship, the three top invitational chess tournaments in the nation.
That’s right. The Trifecta. The Triple Crown. The Royal Three.
If this news sounds familiar, it’s because St. Louis has firmly planted itself as the defacto home of U.S. Championship chess.
This marks the sixth consecutive year the U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship will be held in St. Louis, and the fifth year running for the U.S. Juniors, all held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center in the Central West End.
