On Chess: USA wins gold at Baku Chess Olympiad By JOHN DONALDSON • 4 HOURS AGO Rio was not the only city to host an Olympics in 2016. Baku, capital of the oil-rich nation of Azerbaijan, just hosted the...
A victory 79 years in the making!
Gold! 79 years in the making (in a non-boycotted Chess Olympiad 1937 – 2016)! 2016 team (Baku, Azerbaijan): Caruana, Nakamura, So, Shankland, Robson 1937 team (Stockholm, Sweden): Reshevsky, Fine, Kashdan, Marshall, Horowitz 1976 team (in boycotted Olympiad in Haifa,...
Media Tabloid, False Narrative, Pattern of Ridiculousness? Defending Team USA!
Photo by Maria E. Media Tabloid, False Narrative, Pattern of Ridiculousness? By Paul Truong A few days before the US won the historic Gold medal at the 2016 Baku Chess Olympiad, Susan Polgar wrote a piece about the...
LIVE Interview with Olympiad Gold Medalist GM Ray Robson
LIVE Interview with Webster University Star GM Ray Robson, 2016 Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist!
Webster’s grown talents made history at Baku Olympiad
United States Chess Team Wins Olympiad Gold – Two of the Five-member Team are from Webster University An Historic Occasion in Baku for the U.S. and the SPICE Team Led by Susan Polgar (St. Louis, Mo. – September 13,...
4 of 5 players on US Olympiad Gold Medal team have St Louis ties
Chess players with St. Louis ties win gold medal at international chess competition By Ashley Lisenby St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS • Chess players with St. Louis connections won a gold medal at the World Chess Olympiad, the first for...
Team USA at Baku Chess Olympiad
Team USA in Baku for 2016 Chess Olympiad Fabiano Caruana (started career at Polgar Chess Center) Hikaru Nakamura Wesley So (former SPICE student) Ray Robson (current SPICE student) Sam Shankland Women’s Team Irina Krush Anna Zatonskih Katerina Nemcova (current...