Bobby Fischer to St. Louis. Rex Sinquefield, the sponsor of the 2009 U.S. chess championship and the founder of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, purchased Bobby Fischer's chess collection last Thursday in New York. Sinquefield and his wife paid $50,000 plus an $11,000 commission to the San Francisco-based auction house Bonhams and Butterfields. The collection includes hundreds of chess books and periodicals, galley proofs of Fischer's best book, "My 60 Memorable Games," and other personal items. It is encouraging that Fischer's possessions found a good home and eventually could be displayed to the public. I am sure that more of Fischer's chess memorabilia is ...

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