Sinquefield Cup in the news

Forbes
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance
Forbes
Part of what has brought prestige to the club is that it's the host of several large chess tournaments, including the United States Chess Championship, the Sinquefield Cup (part of the Grand Chess Tour) and more. The events are large and broadcast over ...

Forbes
How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance
Forbes
Part of what has brought prestige to the club is that it's the host of several large chess tournaments, including the United States Chess Championship, the Sinquefield Cup (part of the Grand Chess Tour) and more. The events are large and broadcast over ...

How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance  Forbes

How St. Louis Helped Kickstart An American Chess Renaissance  Forbes Now

The St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center has a pretty humble beginning. After retiring and moving back to his Missouri home, financier (and Forbes ...

What to do against the French? Sergei Tiviakov recommends 3.Nd2!  Chessbase News

Sergei Tiviakov knows how to win against the French: by playing 3.Nd2! The renowned author and grandmaster regularly plays this move which has brought him ...

Chess.com
Meet Kasparov, Reimeet A Legend, Run U.S. Chess
Chess.com
GM Garry Kasparov having some fun amongst his fellow grandmasters after the 2015 Sinquefield Cup. While he's long argued that IBM had many advantages in the match, the book will also discuss how computers have advanced human understanding of ...

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Topalov Wins A Brilliancy In Shamkir  Chess.com

Pavel Eljanov won his second game in a row to start The Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir in clear first place after two rounds, but the main story of the day was ...

US Champion Wesley So
BusinessWorld Online Edition
August 2016 -- 4th Sinquefield Cup (ELO average of 2778, category 22), solo first with two wins (over Topalov and Nakamura) and seven draws. Tied for second half a point behind him were Anand, Aronian, Caruana and Topalov. Performance rating of 2857.

On Chess: Professional players through the eyes of a grandmaster, coach and spectator  St. Louis Public Radio

From March 27 until mid-April, I had the chance to be grandmaster in residence at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Being at the “mecca”

On Chess: Professional players through the eyes of a grandmaster, coach and spectator  St. Louis Public Radio

From March 27 until mid-April, I had the chance to be grandmaster in residence at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Being at the “mecca”

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players
Minneapolis Star Tribune
He created the Sinquefield Cup tournament and other special invitational events that offered hundreds of thousands of dollars each in prize funds to the world's elite players. “We really take care of them,” Sinquefield said. “Everybody goes away making ...

Midwest is king of world chess as lavish St. Louis club lures top players  Star Tribune

ST. LOUIS – For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union dominated international chess competitions. Now the center of the chess world has shifted to the ...

Grenke Classic 2017: Hou Yifan is queen for the day...again!  Chessbase News

What can one say, except: wow. Of the four games in round two, three ended in decisive results, and Levon Aronian's escape from Magnus Carlsen was a small ...

Aftenposten
Magnus Carlsens nye utseende får oppmerksomhet i sjakkmiljøet: – Jeg hadde ...
Aftenposten
Senere i år blir imidlertid verdensmesteren langt mer opptatt. I juni skal Carlsen spille Norway Chess. Deretter venter prestisjetunge hurtigsjakkturneringer i Brüssel og Paris. Etter det skal han også spille Sinquefield Cup i St. Louis og London Chess ...

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So, Foisor are US chess champions  Stabroek News

Elite chess grandmaster Wesley So won the exacting 2017 US Championship recently and in so doing, extended his victories and draws to 67 tournament ...

Inquirer.net
Faces of the News
Inquirer.net
So hasn't lost a match since ruling the Sinquefield Cup. He has also bagged the board 3 gold medal in the Baku Olympiad, topped the London Classic and tamed a powerful field in the Tata Steel Championship. Clearly, it shouldn't be long before the ...

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Inquirer.net
Faces of the News
Inquirer.net
So hasn't lost a match since ruling the Sinquefield Cup. He has also bagged the board 3 gold medal in the Baku Olympiad, topped the London Classic and tamed a powerful field in the Tata Steel Championship. Clearly, it shouldn't be long before the ...

American Chess Magazine stays the course  Chessbase News

The second edition of the American Chess Magazine is out, and for those wondering whether this new foray into the challenging print chess magazine market ...

Yahoo Finance
2017 Chess Champions: Men's Global Rising Star, Women's Surprise Player Prove Worth, Win U.S. and U.S. Women's ...
Yahoo Finance
2-rated player in the world, highest rated player in the U.S. and 2016 Grand Chess Tour Champion - even winning the Saint Louis leg of the tour, the Sinquefield Cup - GM So was presumably the favorite to win the tournament, and yet again make his mark ...

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Газета.Ru
В швейцарском Цюрихе состоится шахматный супертурнир с участием Владимира Крамника
Газета.Ru
В конце июля прошлого года россиянин снялся с престижного турнира Sinquefield Cup в американском Сент-Луисе из-за проблем со здоровьем. Это состязание особенно важно, потому что входит в «Мировой шахматный тур» — крупный ...