Billionaire Chess Revolutionary "Rex Sinquefield

                                 Born: 1944 (age 76 years), St. Louis, MO

American entrepreneurialism, such as that exhibited by St. Louis’ own Rex Sinquefield, has helped put a check on Russia’s preeminence in the game of chess.The Soviet Union dominated the game of chess for the better part of the 20th Century, but the tables are now turning, with India and Norway producing powerhouse players and St. Louis turning into a hotbed of chess activity.

 Rex is best known to US Chess members as the confident and jovial founder of the Saint Louis Chess Club with his wife Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield.

Saint Louis Chess Campus

In 2007, Rex Sinquefield opened the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, a non-profit organization. An educational organization, its mission is to "maintain a formal program of instruction to teach the game of chess and to promote and support its educational program through community outreach and local and national partnerships to increase the awareness of the educational value of chess." In August 2010, Sinquefield provided seed funding to move the World Chess Hall of Fame to St. Louis, citing the Chess Club's presence and reputation. The Sinquefield Cup is named after him.

In 2016, BBC News reported that Sinquefield, who likes chess “so much he put tens of millions of dollars into the game,” turned St. Louis into a chess capital because he believes that chess can transform children and their academic lives.

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