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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.
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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 ...
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The first Official World Championship was held in 1886, and there has always been at least one world champion since then. [2] From 1993 to 2008, there were always two champions from rival organizations. [2] The dominant correspondence chess organization is the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – The Texas Rangers rented a stately place with a huge lawn for Hall of Fame weekend. It also was in a neighborhood that remained quiet on Sunday morning, even as thousands of ...
Follow along this weekend as Star Tribune Patrick Reusse makes his way, eventually, to the heavily Minnesota-flavored National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on Sunday in Cooperstown, N ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...