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вЂњImagine that this city would become the most noticeable spot, chess spot, on the world map,вЂќ Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess player ever, alongside Fischer, told the crowd gathered at the U.S. He believes that the game represents вЂњeverything valued by Western civilization, and maybe Eastern civilization: intelligence, judgment, study, hard work, intuition, calmness under pressure-all of that is on the line with chess.вЂќ These days, he plays some twenty online games at a given time, he says, describing himself as a вЂњdecent club playerвЂќ with вЂњa healthy addiction.вЂќ After moving back to Missouri, more than a decade ago, he decided to start a chess club. I always felt a little guilty.вЂќ He went on to play in high school and college, still in St. вЂњThe second time we played,вЂќ he told me, вЂњI beat him.

Louis orphanage, Sinquefield didnвЂ™t learn to play chess until the ancient age of thirteen, when his uncle Fred taught him. index funds, in 1973, and for leading what Bloomberg Businessweek has called вЂњa crusade against the income tax.вЂќ Raised in a St. The unlikely shift can be attributed almost entirely to the efforts of a deep-pocketed retired financial executive named Rex Sinquefield, best known, previously, for helping create the first S. вЂњIf you had said back then, вЂSince your retirement, the center of chess has moved to the Midwest,вЂ™ IвЂ™d go, вЂReally? Chicago?вЂ™В вЂќ Seirawan, who retired as an active tournament grand master in 2003, agreed. Louis could become a chess hub,вЂќ Caruana told me.

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(He also owns homes in Florida.) вЂњIвЂ™m not really looking for flashy cars.вЂќ But the location was key: while New York, and Manhattan, in particular, has long been AmericaвЂ™s foremost incubator of chess players, it has been eclipsed in the past few years by the Midwestern city best known for its professional baseball team, its tornadoes, and its barbecue. вЂњI like to invest in real estate,вЂќ he said. It would have been cool.вЂќДЇifty thousand dollars richer from last weekвЂ™s win, but not much more famous, Caruana considered this alternate universe, which may still come to pass a few years hence.

Because I would have had a chance to become world champion and it would also have been the youngest world-championship match in history. The rivalry isnвЂ™t the same now: there isnвЂ™t the clash of nations or Cold War. вЂњThe last time an American was playing for a world championship was in 1972: Fischer against Spassky.

вЂњIt would have been a big deal,вЂќ Caruana, a sparrow-like, bespectacled young man, quietly confessed over coffee this week, after winning the U.S. You donвЂ™t need Bobby Fischer,вЂќ Seirawan said, referring to the greatest American chess player of all time, whose heyday was the nineteen-sixties and seventies. вЂњAmericans gravitate towards champions-full stop, end of story. Chess in coffee shops and parks would have swollen.вЂќ Caruana lost the deciding match to the twenty-six-year-old Russian player Sergey Karjakin, who is ranked eighth in the world, six spots below Caruana. He would have played a match in November, in the Big Apple, against Carlsen, for the world championship.

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champion, former world top ten, and chess commentator, told me recently, with characteristic ebullience, вЂњchess in America would have gone under a renaissance almost overnight, because weвЂ™ve got skin in the game. вЂњHad Fabiano won that game,вЂќ Yasser Seirawan, a four-time U.S. The American chess player-and second-ranked player in the world-Fabiano Caruana (right) in a match against the Russian player Sergey Karjakin at the Candidates Cup, last month.

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