September 15, 2013

Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis — World #1 Magnus Carlsen Wins $70,000 first prize … with $220,000 cash at stake and 4 top chess grandmasters playing each other twice, it was the highest rated chess grandmaster of all time with ferocious chess endgame play…… M. CARLSEN, WHO TOOK HOME $70,000 first prize today via 3 wins, three draws, 4.5 POINTS .. . and sending the Norwegian chess monster player on a cloud to Chennai, India for his $5 million world title play versus world chess champion V. Anand of India this November. US chess great Hikaru NAKAMURA WAS CLEAR SECOND in St. Louis at 3.5 with Levon ARONIAN (AREMINIA) THIRD, Gata KAMSKY, US, LAST.

— Jude Acers