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Want to Live as Long as an Olympian? Become a Chess Grandmaster - Mental Floss

Chess Research - Tue, 05/29/2018 - 08:15
Want to Live as Long as an Olympian? Become a Chess Grandmaster  Mental Floss

It's well known that physical fitness can help prolong your life, so it's not surprising that elite athletes, like Olympians, tend to have longer lifespans than your ...

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Checkmate: Elite chess players live 14 years longer | Nest Egg - nestegg.com.au

Chess Research - Tue, 05/29/2018 - 02:00
Checkmate: Elite chess players live 14 years longer | Nest Egg  nestegg.com.au

Forget the kombucha, take up chess! In news sure to thrill chess players around the world, a new study has revealed elite chess players tend to live up to 14 ...

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Checkmate: Elite chess players live 14 years longer - nestegg.com.au

Chess Research - Tue, 05/29/2018 - 02:00
Checkmate: Elite chess players live 14 years longer  nestegg.com.au

Forget the kombucha, take up chess! In news sure to thrill chess players around the world, a new study has revealed elite chess players tend to live up to 14 ...

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Checkmate: Elite chess players live 14 years longer | Nest Egg - nestegg.com.au

Chess Research - Tue, 05/29/2018 - 02:00
Checkmate: Elite chess players live 14 years longer | Nest Egg  nestegg.com.au

Forget the kombucha, take up chess! In news sure to thrill chess players around the world, a new study has revealed elite chess players tend to live up to 14 ...

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New study reveals chess players live longer - Mirage News

Chess Research - Tue, 05/29/2018 - 01:00

Mirage News

New study reveals chess players live longer
Mirage News
In the study, published in PLoS ONE, the CEPAR researchers Dr An Tran-Duy and Professor Philip Clarke, in collaboration with Dr David Smerdon of the University of Queensland, compared the survival of 1,208 chess players from 28 countries relative to ...

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Want to Live as Long as an Olympian? Become a Chess Grandmaster - Mental Floss

Chess Research - Tue, 05/29/2018 - 00:01

Mental Floss

Want to Live as Long as an Olympian? Become a Chess Grandmaster
Mental Floss
According to BPS Research Digest, a recent study suggests that international chess grandmasters have lifespans comparable to Olympic athletes. The study, published in PLOS ONE, examined the survival rates of 1208 mostly male chess grandmasters and ...

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No gamble! This IIM professor uses poker in the classroom - Economic Times

Chess Research - Mon, 05/28/2018 - 00:56

Economic Times

No gamble! This IIM professor uses poker in the classroom
Economic Times
For those who dismiss poker as a hobby sport or a gambling game, a conversation with Deepak Dhayanithy, assistant professor, strategic management, at IIM Kozhikode, may be an eye opener. The academician teaches a class on competition strategy using ...

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Judges in Canada are sentencing juvenile offenders to chess – and the results are promising - Scroll.in

Chess Research - Sat, 05/26/2018 - 13:07

Scroll.in

Judges in Canada are sentencing juvenile offenders to chess – and the results are promising
Scroll.in
To address this gap, our research team, led by Monique Sedgwick and Jeffrey MacCormack, is conducting a study that explores how youth caught up in the criminal justice system, and participating in the Chess for Life Programme, view themselves as they ...

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Study of the Month: May, 2018 - Chessbase News

Chess Research - Sat, 05/26/2018 - 02:00
Study of the Month: May, 2018  Chessbase News

As the column is always changing, reader feedback was received that April's historical examination was too long and the column should concentrate on studies ...

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Celebrate Orrin Hudson's Memorial Day Weekend Birthday Bash - On Common Ground News

Chess Research - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 09:14

On Common Ground News

Celebrate Orrin Hudson's Memorial Day Weekend Birthday Bash
On Common Ground News
We get everyone involved, from the students to the parentss,” said Hudson, who has hosted children's chess camps since 2001. “We're looking forward to sharing this mental sport with even more kids this summer and it is our hope to provide families with ...

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Canada Tries New Tack for Young Offenders: Chess - Crime Report

Chess Research - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 07:07

Canada Tries New Tack for Young Offenders: Chess
Crime Report
Since January, juvenile offenders have been playing chess each Friday afternoon on the Lethbridge campus. An interactive white board shows a game in progress. Off to the side, another board is set up with a “chess problem.” A research team led by ...

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On Chess: How you can best learn from both modern and classical chess at the same time? - St. Louis Public Radio

Chess Research - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 13:53

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: How you can best learn from both modern and classical chess at the same time?
St. Louis Public Radio
As a chess coach and active player, I am constantly thinking about the ways that I can help my students and myself to improve our chess skills using both contemporary (let us call it post-engine era) material and earlier classical (where ideas and ...

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Putt-Putt Goes Picasso - Ladue News

Chess Research - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 12:14

Putt-Putt Goes Picasso
Ladue News
Including research and planning, realizing “Golf the Galleries” has taken “well over a year,” she continues, actively beginning with an open call for proposals from September to January. ... The titles and creators of the exhibition's individual holes ...

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Altibox Norway Chess Takes Off On Sunday - Chess.com

Chess Research - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 10:03

Chess.com

Altibox Norway Chess Takes Off On Sunday
Chess.com
On Sunday the sixth edition of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament takes off in Stavanger, Norway. The field, topped by Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, has eight out of the world's top 10 players. The participants list starts with the top 8 of the ...

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How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child - Science Magazine

Chess Research - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 09:26

How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child
Science Magazine
In February, MIT launched Intelligence Quest, a research initiative now raising hundreds of millions of dollars to understand human intelligence in engineering terms. Such efforts, researchers hope, will result in AIs that sit somewhere between pure ...

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Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results - Phys.Org

Chess Research - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 09:00

Phys.Org

Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results
Phys.Org
Preliminary research into the Chess for Life Program in Alberta, Canada, shows that youth who are sentenced to chess instruction after committing non-violent crimes are learning useful life skills. Credit: Shutterstock. Since January 2018, every Friday ...

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Altibox Norway Chess Takes Off On Sunday - Chess.com

Chess Research - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 02:00
Altibox Norway Chess Takes Off On Sunday  Chess.com

On Sunday, the sixth edition of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament begins in Stavanger, Norway. The field, topped by Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, ...

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Lance Grigg - The Conversation CA

Chess Research - Wed, 05/23/2018 - 18:09

The Conversation CA

Lance Grigg
The Conversation CA
Dr. Grigg's areas of research are critical thinking in education and nursing, philosophy of education and the philosophy and economics of Bernard Lonergan. Dr. Grigg is an active, CFC and FIDE rated chess player. He is currently involved in a research ...

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Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results - The Conversation CA

Chess Research - Wed, 05/23/2018 - 17:53

The Conversation CA

Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results
The Conversation CA
To address this gap, our research team, led by Monique Sedgwick and Jeffrey MacCormack, is conducting a study that explores how youth caught up in the criminal justice system, and participating in the Chess for Life Program, view themselves as they ...

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