Page 14 - Rex Sinquefield News Today

With Aronian’s relocation, the U.S. now boasts five of the world’s top 20 grandmasters, and it’s a genuine American melting pot: Fabiano Caruana (No. 2), Florida-born but who played a while for Italy; Wesley So (No. 9), a Philippine native to who switched to the U.S. in 2014; Leinier Dominguez Perez (No. 14), a Havana native who joined Team Red, White and Blue in 2018; and Japanese-born Hikaru Nakamura (No. 18), whose family moved to the U.S. when he was two. Aside from a sterling resume,...

Levon Aronian To Play For United States GM Levon Aronian will switch federations from Armenia to the United States and will relocate to St. Louis. Earlier today, Aronian announced the news via a statement on social media. "I am sincerely proud to have had the honor of making a significant contribution to the greatest achievements of Armenian chess," Aronian is quoted in a press release by the Saint Louis Chess Club. "Clearly, it is impossible to reach world heights in chess without the huge am...

  World no 6 Levon Aronian has confirmed the bombshell news that he’s going to switch to the USA, with support from Rex Sinquefield The Armenian star, who led his nation of just 3 million people to an incr

€29.90 Mind-boggling A year before transferring back to the United States, Fabiano Caruana achieved what has been the strongest performance in his career and one of the most incredible feats in the history of competitive chess. At 22, he obtained a stratospheric 3103 Tournament Rating Performance by scoring 8½/10 points in the second edition of the Sinquefield Cup. Moreover, he did it by winning his first seven games consecutively. The achievement reached mainstream media, wi...

Carlsen & Firouzja back for Norway Chess in May Magnus Carlsen will be out to defend his Altibox Norway Chess title just 7 months after the 2020 tournament ended, with the organisers planning to return to a 10-player global event in May with the likes of Ding Liren and Wesley So back in Stavanger. There are more World Champions in action, with Anatoly Karpov set to play in the Tepe Sigeman & Co. Chess tournament in April, Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik to play in Dortmund in July, and we can ...

Republican AGs Cannot Shake Ties to Violent Trump Coup Attempt Trump loyalists fueled by President Trumps continued claims of election fraud clash with police on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images By The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is trying desperately to distance itself from the attempted coup by white supremacists and Trump supporters on Jan. 6, but it cannot hide from the fact that its actions helped fuel the violen...

In November, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (left) became the chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, while Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (right) became RAGAs policy chair and chair of the groups Rule of Law Defense Fund, which was among the sponsors of the Trump rally preceding the U.S. Capitol Riot and sent out robocalls urging people to march to the Capitol to "stop the steal." (Official portraits.) After its nonprofit subsidiary promoted lies about election fra...

How Political Donors Are Changing Statehouse News Reporting A growing share of statehouse reporting in state capitols across the country comes from conservative groups, blurring the lines between journalism and advocacy. Daniel C. Vock   |   November 2014 The talk radio segment started with the opening guitar riffs of Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City.” Then, over the first drumbeats of the 1987 rock anthem, came the deep, resonant voice of a male ann...