Rex Sinquefield

Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield present GM Gata Kamsky, center, with his prize for winning the 2011 U.S. Championship. The Sinquefiields were both honored by the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Chess Club founders Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield were each recognized and honored Sunday night at the 2012 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Springfield, Mo.

Rex Sinquefield faces former world champion Garry Kasparov at a simultaneous exhibition at the New York Athletic Club, January 11, 2012. Photo by Mig Greengard for the Kasparov Chess Foundation, Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA

Club Founder Rex Sinquefield attended a fundraiser for the Kasparov Chess Foundation in New York last week, and had the opportunity to take on former World Champion Garry Kasparov in a simul.

Rex Sinquefield has been awarded the Gold Koltanowski Award each of the past three years for his work in promoting chess at both the local and national level.

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SINQUEFIELDS PURCHASE BOBBY FISCHER'S CHESS COLLECTION

St. Louis, June 11 -- Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield have purchased the chess library of the legendary Bobby Fischer, including notebooks he prepared for his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky.  The Sinquefields acquired the collection through San Francisco-based auction house, Bonhams and Butterfields.

"I am thrilled to have this collection from arguably the greatest chess player in history," said Rex Sinquefield, founder and board president of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. "I have been a lifelong fan of Bobby Fischer."

The reclusive Fischer died in January 2008 at age 64. The collection purchased by the Sinquefields includes 320 books on chess; about 400 issues of chess-related periodicals; three sets of proofs for Fischer's 1969 book, "My 60 Memorable Games"; and a number of bound volumes detailing the match histories of several chess masters, including Spassky.

The Spassky-related works centers on Fischer's preparation for his historic 1972 match, won by Fischer. The victory ended 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship. 

The collection also includes a copy of "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess," with a note indicating that Fischer planned on suing the publishers. 

Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield, who are retired investment company executives, said they weren't sure of their plans with the Fischer collection. "I am thinking right now about how to display it and to make it available to scholars," Rex said.

The Chess Club and Scholastic Center was founded in 2007 with funding from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. It recently hosted the 2009 U.S. Chess Championship, which was won by Hikaru Nakamura. The center also will host the 2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship from Oct.  2 to Oct. 12.

The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization. For more information, please visit www.saintlouischessclub.org. 

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Saint Louis, MO, December 12, 2008 -- A good time was had by nearly 400 guests and more than $50,000 was raised to benefit the St. Vincent Home for Children at the second annual St. Vincent Home for Children Benefit Christmas Party.

KETC Public Television

From KETC, LIVING ST. LOUIS Producer Ruth Ezell visits the St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center where she meets 10-year-old Margaret Hua, already one of the highest ranked chess players in the U.S.