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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar (third from right) stands with members of the Webster University chess team after it won its fourth straight Final Four victory, making it the No. 1-ranked team in the nation. Polgar, who is Jewish, has won multiple U.S. Olympic medals and Women’s World Champ-ionships.

Webster U chess team’s got game – and a grandmaster coach

By Bill Motchan, Special to the LightPublished April 6, 2016

The University of Missouri Tigers and the St. Louis University Billikens were never among the contenders for the NCAA college basketball championship. But on Sunday, Webster University won its fourth straight Final Four victory — in chess. Webster is...


Seated in front of a
wall of portraits of chess legends, Israeli Grandmaster Boris
Gelfand speaks at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint
Louis, located in the Central West End. Photo: Mike
Sherwin

Israeli Chess Grandmaster makes all the right moves

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished July 20, 2011

The air is filled with letters and numbers delivered in an unmistakable Eastern European accent as dozens in the audience sit in rapt attention. As he deftly calls out notations representing a series of moves from a recent game, Boris Gelfand seems to...

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