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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) continues celebrating its 10-year anniversary in Saint Louis by open...
/PRNewswire/ -- The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF) continues celebrating its 10-year anniversary in Saint Louis by opening its first-ever, museum-wide...
“Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis” celebrates the best chess, art and culture from all 50 exhibitions held at the WCHOF since its 2011 relocation to Saint Louis, Missouri. The three-floor show features more than 120 artworks and artifacts, including pieces related to legendary World Champions Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Boris Spassky.
/PRNewswire/ -- The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, announces two, all-new exhibitions – Pawns & Passports:...
Provided As a chess team captain at the University of Chicago in 1968, Harold Winston won a decisive match that clinched the national and Pan-American championship. Among his college chess rivals was George R.R. Martin, the future “Game of Thrones” author who wrote of a certain archrival in his short story “Unsound Variations.” Martin “put him in a story as ‘Hal Winslow,’ ” said Mr. Winston’s wife, Dr. Carol Weinberg. Winslow was the rumpled, clipboard-carrying U. of C. chess team captain in “Unsound Variations” who also shares Mr. Winston’s initials “It was never ea...