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^ neat.

“For the last 60 years, Russia and the Soviet Union were the dominant countries in chess, but nowadays, American chess can compete. When you want to find a city that has the best chess players in the world, it is either Moscow, Russia, or St. Louis, Missouri, which is very impressive.”

US Chess Executive Board Votes To Move Organization’s Headquarters

Moving from Crossville TN to St. Louis. No specific location yet. Wouldn't be surprised to see them land in CWE. Not a huge organization but certainly an important get that further cements STL as the center of gravity of US Chess.

A little salty they call St. Louis Missouri's second largest city in the press release 

Fantastic news. 

I hope they end up in the Central West End.

How many E. Indians play chess at the chess club?
The clubs expansion is good they may need more room:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60497243

$8M building permit application submitted for the expansion and remodel.

Anybody have updates on this? I assumed it'd be finished by now.

$8m worth of work in 3 months (assuming permit was issued by Aug) would be very aggressive

dbInSouthCity wrote:$8m worth of work in 3 months (assuming permit was issued by Aug) would be very aggressive

Was basing it more off how all the original announcements and the signs on the building itself have said late 2022 for a while now.

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Haven't seen much activity walking by there, doesn't look like $8 million of renovations are going on. 

PeterXCV wrote:Haven't seen much activity walking by there, doesn't look like $8 million of renovations are going on. 

Maybe they redirected the money to new butt plug security systems instead /s

quincunx wrote: ↑

Jul 09, 2022

$8M building permit application submitted for the expansion and remodel.

Issued

Sexual misconduct allegations have shaken up the Chess Club, as well as SLU's chess team. Making headlines in the Chess community.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/sport/al ... index.html

It definitely makes me less excited to enroll my daughter in STLCC events.

TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑

Aug 19, 2023

The big issue here is that this takes away from the legitimacy of the STLCC and the potential for it to be a real chess destination.

Which means they destroyed a vibrant block for nothing.  Someone (rex) needs to start chopping heads, keep the vision alive.

I suspect it's Rex's head that needs to be chopped. The inciting events are old news that he has been sitting on for a while with no apparent action.

Why not just get rid of the guy that was doing the harassing?

CWE seems to have shifted south of Lindell and the restaurants have been failing before he was taking over the buildings. Is the Bar Louie spot still empty? 

flipz wrote: ↑

Aug 21, 2023

Why not just get rid of the guy that was doing the harassing?

CWE seems to have shifted south of Lindell and the restaurants have been failing before he was taking over the buildings. Is the Bar Louie spot still empty? 

No it's not empty, and Cullpepper's had been open for like 100 years before the Chess Club destroyed it. 

flipz wrote: ↑

Aug 21, 2023

Why not just get rid of the guy that was doing the harassing?

That's a great idea and they should have done that. The fact that they didn't for months/years, basically not until publicly pressured into doing so, indicates the problem is bigger than just the guy that was doing the harassing.

World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194593562/chess-transgender-fide-pushback

What? Chess is a game, not a sport. Gender has absolutely no bearing on it.

I never understood why men and women competed separately to begin with.

framer wrote: ↑

Aug 23, 2023

What? Chess is a game, not a sport. Gender has absolutely no bearing on it.

I never understood why men and women competed separately to begin with.

Chess, like most of society, is run by misogynist biotruthers.

There's merit to having women-only events. Women make up a small minority of adult chess players, possibly because they face a gauntlet of bigotry and abuse, so there's obvious appeal to having a space for women to compete. But that has nothing to do with transgender women, unless you believe women need their own titles because their brains are smaller than men and transwomen would have an unfair advantage.

Nigel Short, FIDE Director for Chess Development wrote:Men are hardwired to be better chess players than women, you have to gracefully accept that.

KSDK reported the expansion will open this fall. It includes a restaurant. Maybe Elliott Davis will find it a suitable substitute for Culpepper's, I doubt it.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainm ... 8be31e1ae8