Playing chess with Rex Sinquefield
Friday, September 18, 2009, 12:14pm CDT
I’m not afraid to admit chess is a game that intimidates me.
When I was given the assignment to write about Rex Sinquefield’s investment in St. Louis’ newest chess club, I knew I was going to have to put aside my trepidation and dust off a chess board. Three days before I met with Sinquefield, the retired investment fund manager who provided the seed money for the $1 million transformation of a two-story historic building in the Central West End into a chess club, I played two games on a Saturday night with a friend and won both.
Having not played in more than a decade, I felt a boost in confidence in my chess skills, at least until I sat across a chess board from Sinquefield.
“Oh, you don’t want to do that,” he said after I made my first move. Ouch!
Sinquefield played on the chess tournament circuit in the 1970s and 80s, and he has a private tutor…
Here is the full article.
Nice to see a generous person who supports chess.