St Louis USCF club pay for full-time GM

[JamesMurphy]

This just shows how big chess really is in America. What other club in this country could afford to pay for a full-time GM?!

http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9843/562/

[Matt Mackenzie]

I don't think many other American clubs could afford it either tbh

In fact the complaints US chess enthusiasts make about the game's "low profile" there are uncannily similar to ours (not least on this board) And when it comes to the national federation........

[Alex McFarlane]

Except according to the photo and the FIDE website the story should more accurately be IM in residence. Obviously the author doesn't know the difference.

[John Anderson]

Ben Finegold gained his 3rd GM norm a couple of months ago and, as his rating is 2530, it`s just a formality.

[Leonard Barden]

This just shows how big chess really is in America.

This appointment has very little to do with chess being big in the US and very much with the generosity of Rex Sinquefield, the millionaire retired investment guru, who is a St Louis resident and has already financed the last US championship in St Louis with a record prize fund, bought up the library of his hero Bobby Fischer, and given the St Louis Chess Club its own premises with daily opening.

Mr Sinquefield is a longtime reader of my Saturday Financial Times column so I made sure when reporting Nakamura's US title victory to include deserved praise for Sinquefield.

I understand that Mr Sinquefield will probably visit London next month to watch some of the Classic at Olympia, so as a rather more practical suggestion than some in this forum for promoting British chess, I recommend thinking up some ideas which would further his aim to promote US chess while also helping here. For example now that the sponsor of the Staunton Memorial has withdrawn, it could be worth looking at seeing if he would contribute to that, replacing the Dutch contingent by Americans. Another idea could be a match in St Louis between David Howell and Ray Robson, 15, the youngest ever US GM.

[Ian Lamb]

in france at cannes chess club they have many gms coaching there players at the club with thousands of members as well. joseph sanchez and a few other gms coach there. here the correct site http://ns20.webmasters.com/*cannes-eche ... pdocs/ace/

[James Coleman]

Don't see much on that page about chess Ian. Certainly worth bookmarking in case I ever need to go for an erotic massage in France, though.

[Ian Lamb]

lol james it was not suppose to be that site!!

[Alex Holowczak]

Evidently.

[Ian Lamb]

looks like the cannes chess site has been hacked in to and this site now appears there . !