The 2014 Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis was the most elite chess tournament ever, based on the competitive ratings of the participants. When the 10 grueling rounds of five-hour games were over, the ...
GREENWICH — Impossibly young, incredibly talented and heavily decorated: if Whitby fifth-grader Maximillian Lu were a race horse, he would be American Pharoah. Last weekend, the Greenwich 10-year-old ...
GREENWICH — Most people could not play chess for 27 hours, but Max Lu, Greenwich’s youngest chess prodigy, is not like most people. After seven games that stretched 30 hours, Lu, a Western Middle ...