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The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) is a nonprofit collecting institution in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, United States.Founded in 1984, it features chess exhibits, engages in educational outreach, and maintains a list of inductees to the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame and World Chess Hall of Fame.
The Saint Louis Chess Club (previously, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) is a chess club in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.It was founded in 2008 by billionaire Rex Sinquefield as part of his effort to improve U.S. chess and turn St. Louis into an international chess center, [1] an effort that also moved the World Chess Hall of Fame into a ...
Chess career: Country: Hungary ... She now lives in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. ... Polgar was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri. [51 ...
In 2010, Sinquefield bought the recently-closed World Chess Hall of Fame, renovated a house across the street from the Chess Club, and moved it to St. Louis. [58] In 2013, he launched the Sinquefield Cup, a super-grandmaster tournament. In 2018, he suggested that he had spent some $50 million on chess-related philanthropy. [59]
The Cairns Cup is an annual round robin chess tournament, founded in 2019, for the leading women's chess players held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. [1] The tournament was named after St Louis Chess Club co-founder and World Chess Hall of Fame member Dr Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield.
Chess grandmaster Christopher Yoo, 17, was banned from the 2024 U.S. Championships after having an outburst. The teenager "crumpled his scoresheet, stormed out of the tournament hall, and struck a ...
The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame will be inducting some of the best known people in Chiefs and Royals history, along with many others with deep ties to Kansas City.
Trinity Episcopal Church (St. Louis, Missouri) W. Washington Terrace (St. Louis) ... World Chess Hall of Fame This page was last edited on 16 October 2017, at 22:21 ...