Webster U and St Louis Ches Club in the news

Chess Club, Polgar get nod in Wired Magazine
Feb 14, 2013, 1:31pm CST Updated: Feb 14, 2013, 2:54pm CST
Matthew Hibbard
Social Engagement Manager – St. Louis Business Journal

Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar, World and Olympiad champion, received quite the check mate of a profile in the March issue of Wired Magazine.

The article weaves through Polgar’s upbringing all the way back to when her father raised her and her two sisters to be chess masters in the 1980s.

The profile also focuses on why Polgar decided to pack her chess pieces at Texas Tech and transfer her team to Webster University.

Her decision to leave Texas Tech didn’t leave that university with a void in the chess world, in fact, according to the article, Texas Tech has since hired Al Lawrence, the former executive director of the U.S. Chess Federation.

Polgar’s move here has also made ripples across the chess community in St. Louis as well. Since she set up shop in the St. Louis area, chess has spread to other venues, including Lindenwood University, which launched its chess program last fall.

The article highlights St. Louis and its transformation into a chess destination, attracting chess players young and old. It credits St. Louis businessman, philanthropist and chess king Rex Sinquefield for infusing investment dollars into the chess scene and for being its biggest supporter. 

Sinquefield helped finance the 6,000-square-foot, more than $1 million Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis.

To read the story in its entirety, click here.

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com