The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, closed chess tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, honoring Rex Sinquefield and his wife Jeanne, the founders...
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Carlsen–Niemann controversy (section Sinquefield Cup)
During the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022, a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann...
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Hans Niemann (section Sinquefield Cup incident)
reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. Carlsen withdrew from the tournament, later directly accusing Niemann...
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Magnus Carlsen (section Sinquefield Cup withdrawal)
the 2015 Sinquefield Cup. He finished in second place with 5/9 (+3−2=4), one point behind winner Levon Aronian. He defeated the 2014 Sinquefield winner...
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feat he repeated in 2008, 2010, and 2011. In 2014, Caruana won the Sinquefield Cup, recording a 3098 performance rating, the highest in history at the...
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Rex Andrew Sinquefield (/ˈsɪŋkfiːld/; born September 7, 1944) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who has been called an "index-fund...
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beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the finals and winning the 2019 Sinquefield Cup. Ding is the first Chinese player ever to play in a Candidates Tournament...
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Sinquefield may refer to: Fort Sinquefield, the historic site of a wooden stockade fortification in Clarke County, Alabama Sinquefield Cup, an annual,...
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Grand Chess Tour 2016 (section Sinquefield Cup)
one of three tournaments that were parts of the tour, along with Sinquefield Cup and London Chess Classic. The reason was different views on the funding...
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Grand Chess Tour 2024 (section Sinquefield Cup)
2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Rapid & blitz St. Louis Alireza Firouzja Wesley So Hikaru Nakamura (WC) August 19–29, 2024 Sinquefield Cup Classical...
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