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AI Often Draws a Winning Hand - U.S. News & World Report

Chess Research - Tue, 03/07/2017 - 12:55

U.S. News & World Report

AI Often Draws a Winning Hand
U.S. News & World Report
Even in complex games such as chess, being able to imagine a seemingly infinite set of possible outcomes from each move can be managed and largely controlled by AI programs because there is a defined universe of "perfect information." All players in ...

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Last week in science: Insomniac elephants and species extinction - Arizona Daily Wildcat

Chess Research - Tue, 03/07/2017 - 07:08

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Last week in science: Insomniac elephants and species extinction
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Researchers from Johannesburg, South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, led by Anatomical Sciences research professor Paul Manger, put small trackers into the trunks of two female African elephants. The trunk of an elephant operates like a human ...

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Wauwatosa In Our Schools: March 9 - Wauwatosa Now

Chess Research - Mon, 03/06/2017 - 18:22

Wauwatosa Now

Wauwatosa In Our Schools: March 9
Wauwatosa Now
The Wauwatosa East Chess Team competed in the Greater Metro Chess Championships on Friday, March 3. Teams from ... three different divisions. The state scholastic chess championships will be held in Oshkosh the weekend of March 17. ... Mr. Brad Alles ...

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Cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play, scientists show - Science Daily

Chess Research - Mon, 03/06/2017 - 09:52

Cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play, scientists show
Science Daily
Now a new double-blind randomised controlled trial by scientists from German and Swedish universities has shown that the cognitive enhancing drugs, modafinil, methylphenidate, and caffeine can improve chess play. Previous research had shown that the ...

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Scientists show cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play - Phys.Org

Chess Research - Mon, 03/06/2017 - 07:20

Scientists show cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play
Phys.Org
Now a new double-blind randomised controlled trial by scientists from German and Swedish universities has shown that the cognitive enhancing drugs, modafinil, methylphenidate, and caffeine can improve chess play. Previous research had shown that the ...

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Longmont-area events for the week of March 6, 2017 - Longmont Times-Call

Chess Research - Mon, 03/06/2017 - 06:05

Longmont-area events for the week of March 6, 2017
Longmont Times-Call
Chess Club — Players of all levels are welcome. Best for ages 7 and up. No registration required ... Beth Benko is a professional genealogist providing family history research for clients and lecturing to local organizations. Beth holds a bachelor's ...

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Cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play, scientists show - Science Daily

Chess Research - Mon, 03/06/2017 - 02:00
Cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play, scientists show  Science Daily

The first study to both show and measure the effects of cognitive-enhancing drugs such as modafinil, methylphenidate (best known under the trade name Ritalin) ...

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UoH to get ₹113 crore funding from Defence Ministry - The Hindu

Chess Research - Sat, 03/04/2017 - 11:03

UoH to get ₹113 crore funding from Defence Ministry
The Hindu
A series of discussions with various DRDO labs such as HEMRL, TBRL, LASTEC, CHESS, NSTL, CEEFS, DMRL and LIC preceded the finalisation of the project proposals recommended by an expert committee, Prof. Appa Rao said. The research will be ...

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Hyderabad University research projects bags Rs113 cr funding - Hindu Business Line

Chess Research - Sat, 03/04/2017 - 06:58

Hindu Business Line

Hyderabad University research projects bags Rs113 cr funding
Hindu Business Line
Strategic research projects at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) Centre-ARCHEM supported by the Defence Ministry will get a whopping Rs. 113 crore funding for the next five years. The University, among the top five in the country will very soon become ...

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The Share Trading Style Chess Grandmasters Use - Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition

Chess Research - Fri, 03/03/2017 - 17:02

Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition

The Share Trading Style Chess Grandmasters Use
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
His opponent, Deep Blue, was a chess computer birthed in an IBM research lab. On 11 May 1997, the two squared off against one another in a chess match. This wasn't the first time Kasparov had pitted his wits against computers. Or Deep Blue for that matter.

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Fujitsu envisions AI that thinks outside the box - Nikkei Asian Review

Chess Research - Fri, 03/03/2017 - 12:16

Fujitsu envisions AI that thinks outside the box
Nikkei Asian Review
TOKYO -- Tech company Fujitsu aims to develop creative artificial intelligence that works in unfamiliar scenarios, tackling this project with a state-backed institution to try to give Japanese AI research a leg up on competition overseas. This type of ...

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Reading at the library - Harrison Daily (subscription)

Chess Research - Fri, 03/03/2017 - 12:11

Reading at the library
Harrison Daily (subscription)
Programs and activities at the Boone County Library for March. The BCL is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays and from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays and from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday.

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Burnie Chess Club member scores national award - The Advocate

Chess Research - Fri, 03/03/2017 - 00:42

The Advocate

Burnie Chess Club member scores national award
The Advocate
Mr Ledger joined the Burnie Chess Club in 1945, at the age of 15. He was elected Secretary-Treasurer in 1952, and served on the executive team almost continually before his retirement in 2012. Tasmanian Chess Association President Denis McMahon said ...

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Poker-playing AI program first to beat pros at no-limit Texas hold 'em - Science Daily

Chess Research - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 14:31

Science Daily

Poker-playing AI program first to beat pros at no-limit Texas hold 'em
Science Daily
In a historic result for the flourishing AI research community, the team -- which includes researchers from Charles University in Prague and Czech Technical University -- has developed an AI system called DeepStack that defeated professional poker ...
Winning against a computer isn't in the cards for poker pros ...Science News
Time to Fold, Humans: Poker-Playing AI Beats Pros at Texas Hold'emScientific American
How rival bots battled their way to poker supremacyNature.com
Calgary Herald -The Star Online -The Globe and Mail
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Winning against a computer isn't in the cards for poker pros - Science News

Chess Research - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 13:01

Science News

Winning against a computer isn't in the cards for poker pros
Science News
... scientist Murray Campbell, one of the creators of Deep Blue, the computer that bested chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997. DeepStack “had a huge margin of victory,” says Campbell, of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, ...
Time to Fold, Humans: Poker-Playing AI Beats Pros at Texas Hold'emScientific American
AI is Now 10 Times Better Than a Professional Poker PlayerInverse
Skill trumps luckEurekAlert (press release)
ResearchGate (blog) -Times Colonist -Daily Mail
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Understanding the animal, not just its parts - Speaking of Research

Chess Research - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 08:40

Speaking of Research

Understanding the animal, not just its parts
Speaking of Research
Although both publications neglected to discuss the diversity of neuroscience, the main theme of the scientific publication was to change the way scientists interested in the integration of physiology and behavior approach their research questions. Too ...

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How to make your kid good at anything, according to a world expert on peak performance - Quartz

Chess Research - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 03:15

How to make your kid good at anything, according to a world expert on peak performance
Quartz
In the journal, one group of researchers reanalyzed six studies involving chess and eight involving music to determine how much of the performance variance could be accounted for by deliberate practice. In both fields, less than half of the variance in ...

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Arlington Public Library news - Wicked Local Arlington

Chess Research - Thu, 03/02/2017 - 02:19

Wicked Local Arlington

Arlington Public Library news
Wicked Local Arlington
Let's Play Chess!: 3:15-4 p.m. Monday, March 6-April 10, Robbins Library Community Room. Learn how to play chess in this wonderful six-week program at the Robbins Library. Learn chess basics as well as important strategic ideas and tactics to improve ...

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Global Chess Market 2016 - North America, China, Europe, Japan ... - LongShortReport (blog)

Chess Research - Wed, 03/01/2017 - 23:30

LongShortReport (blog)

Global Chess Market 2016 - North America, China, Europe, Japan ...
LongShortReport (blog)
chess-market Global Chess Industry 2016 is an analytical research report that delves into the dynamics of the global Chess industry.It presents an ...

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Patrick, James Burns - The Daily Progress

Chess Research - Wed, 03/01/2017 - 23:00

The Daily Progress

Patrick, James Burns
The Daily Progress
A noted research chemist, he worked for the National Institutes of Health and Lederle Laboratory as Antibiotic Research Scientist prior to becoming head of the Chemistry Department at Mary Baldwin College, 1967 to 1992, and was the first holder of the ...

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