Patrick Wolff left Clarium Capital to found a new hedge fund Grand Master Capital. Wolff is a grandmaster chess player with a 2563 ELO.

Now three other guys, two with ELOs of 2423 and 2238 are co-founding yet another hedge fund, Genius.

You can trust them: they play Chess. Igor Postelnik tells you why [PDF] Chess players make good hedge fund managers.

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