Sinquefield Wants You to Think Chess is a Sport

This might come as a surprise, but Rex Sinquefield plays sports.  Mind sports.

It's no surprise that Rex likes chess, he's provided money to move the World Chess Hall of Fame to St. Louis from Miami as well as founded the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

Chess, like politics, is serious bizness for Rex Sinquefield, so I guess it should come as no surprise that, for someone as involved in the premier mind sport as he is, who has spent countless dollars on promoting chess around the world, and who arguably sees his other passion of politics as one big game of chess, Rex would be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

Am I right?  Chess is a sport, right? 

Can you believe it? This must make it true! Chess is a sport!

What's that you ask?  Are you trying to tell me that even the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame doesn't classify chess as a sport?  Say it ain't so!   How's Rex going to be inducted into the MO Hall of Fame if they don't even recognize chess as a sport?! Are they going to create a chess category just for him?

I guess when you have more money than you know what to do with, you can get whatever it is that you want.  Including categorizing chess as a sport.