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Chess contests begin today - The Hindu

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 19:04

Chess contests begin today
The Hindu
Top nine players (category-wise) will get trophies/medals and merit certificates. Prizes will be distributed to the winners on July 24 at the venue. Dr. Ramalingam, Dean, PSG Institution of Medical Science and Research and PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore ...

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NewSchool of Architecture & Design Hosts San Diego Gam3rCon 2016 Through Sunday - PR Newswire (press release)

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 13:21

PR Newswire (press release)

NewSchool of Architecture & Design Hosts San Diego Gam3rCon 2016 Through Sunday
PR Newswire (press release)
Previous to this Mark held senior positions at Nokia, heading up games publishing, launching various new mobile game formats and award winning experiences, as well as been founding chair of Meqon Research AB (the physics middleware technology ...

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The Secret of Popularity - Wall Street Journal

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 09:16

Wall Street Journal

The Secret of Popularity
Wall Street Journal
According to a study published last month in Educational Research and Reviews, children who play chess score higher on tests that measure theory of mind skills than peers who do not. “Games like chess, checkers or cards build social skills by teaching ...

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USA: Widening participation in and the scope of "study abroad" - The PIE News

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 08:06

USA: Widening participation in and the scope of "study abroad"
The PIE News
By day, Hector Santiago uses his background in information technology to make the computers “better and faster” at the Shreyas Foundation School for orphaned children from the slums of Ahmedabad, the largest city in the state of Gujarat in India.

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Deutsche Bank: There's Still One Indicator That's Warning of Recession - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 07:33

Bloomberg

Deutsche Bank: There's Still One Indicator That's Warning of Recession
Bloomberg
"What is the point of looking at the LEI when all of the components that go into it are available before its release date," says Neil Dutta, Head of U.S. Economics at Renaissance Macro Research LLC. "[T]he LEI is old news by the time it is released...I ...

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'Egregious' Mydentist Bond Clauses Criticized by Covenant Review - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 06:54

'Egregious' Mydentist Bond Clauses Criticized by Covenant Review
Bloomberg
The “egregious and unprecedented” provisions would let the dental provider bypass debt-level tests if it's bought by another owner, Sabrina Fox and Scott Josefsberg, analysts at the New York-based credit research company, wrote in a research paper ...

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America Wastes $160 Billion in Food Every Year But Is Too Busy to Stop - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 05:39

Bloomberg

America Wastes $160 Billion in Food Every Year But Is Too Busy to Stop
Bloomberg
Conducted last July, the survey released Thursday was administered by the research firm SSRS, which used a national sample of 500 people. ... The king's pawn, as it's known, was the preferred opening by the American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer.

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The Search for the Elusive Natural Interest Rate - Bloomberg - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 05:24

The Search for the Elusive Natural Interest Rate - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
The concept guides central bankers like Janet Yellen, but the rate can't be directly observed.

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Next Week Is as Good as It Gets for Big Oil - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 04:56

Bloomberg

Next Week Is as Good as It Gets for Big Oil
Bloomberg
greater the pressure will be on refining margins and thus crude-oil demand,” said Harry Tchilinguirian, head of commodities research at BNP Paribas SA in London. “Fundamental downward pressure on oil is not yet lifted.” Chevron probably will post ...

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A Conversation with Wargaming Grandmaster Dr. Phil Sabin - CIMSEC

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 04:32

CIMSEC

A Conversation with Wargaming Grandmaster Dr. Phil Sabin
CIMSEC
If chess titles were appropriate, then Dr. Philip Sabin would certainly fall somewhere in the upper pantheon of wargamers. A Professor of ... In particular, there was a group of rules writers in Britain in the 60s and 70s called the Wargames Research ...

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A Conversation That Bridges Divides - News Deeply

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 03:33

News Deeply

A Conversation That Bridges Divides
News Deeply
Sheffield Conversation Club is a social hub for information on events and activities including English spoken as another language (ESOL) classes, a place to have a game of Scrabble or chess and sign up for walks in the local area and the Peak District ...

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A Conversation That Bridges Divides - News Deeply

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 03:29

News Deeply

A Conversation That Bridges Divides
News Deeply
Sheffield Conversation Club is a social hub for information on events and activities including English spoken as another language (ESOL) classes, a place to have a game of Scrabble or chess and sign up for walks in the local area and the Peak District ...

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“Robots will colonize space, without human beings” - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Chess Research - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 02:31

“Robots will colonize space, without human beings”
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
It will do this not only for specific, planned objectives – like the IBM computer that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1996 or the vision system that recognizes obstacles in today's self-driving cars – but “in a generalized way, with any problem ...

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Will The Real Peter Thiel Please Stand Up? - BuzzFeed News

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 23:51

Will The Real Peter Thiel Please Stand Up?
BuzzFeed News
Eliezer Yudkowsky, an influential board member at Machine Intelligence Research Institute — an artificial-intelligence non-profit that counts Thiel as its top donor — wrote a Facebook post promising to “eat my shirt, or at least chew on it ...

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Yen Bulls Dig In Seeing Fed Outweigh BOJ Helicopter Money Debate - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 23:25

Bloomberg

Yen Bulls Dig In Seeing Fed Outweigh BOJ Helicopter Money Debate
Bloomberg
There's more probability of the yen rallying beyond 100 in coming months than it weakening past 110, according to Taisuke Tanaka, the bank's chief currency strategist and head of fixed-income research in Tokyo. He forecasts the currency will end ...

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Book review: Why practice doesn't always make perfect - The Providence Journal

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 20:41

Book review: Why practice doesn't always make perfect
The Providence Journal
Based on his 30 years of research about expertise, Ericsson argues in his new book, "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise," that Gladwell needs to spend a few thousand more hours practicing his skill of interpreting others' research, because ...

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Top human hackers face challenges from machines - Xinhua

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 19:19

Xinhua

Top human hackers face challenges from machines
Xinhua
Next month, seven machines will compete in the world's first all-machine network defense tournament and the winner will compete against the world' s top human hackers, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of ...

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Rupert Murdoch to Succeed Ailes as Head of Fox News Channel - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 15:17

Rupert Murdoch to Succeed Ailes as Head of Fox News Channel
Bloomberg
When Peter Thiel has the first move in a chess game, he lifts his e5 pawn, the fifth from the left and the one directly in front of his king, and advances it two spaces. It's an aggressive tactic, putting the bishop and queen into play, which is why ...

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McDonald's Stops Selling Big Mac in Venezuela due to Bread Shortage - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 14:54

Bloomberg

McDonald's Stops Selling Big Mac in Venezuela due to Bread Shortage
Bloomberg
The king's pawn, as it's known, was the preferred opening by the American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer. And even though Thiel considers the move more perilous than another popular opening, the queen's pawn, he's made it his go-to. “It's the ...

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Drowning in a sea of bricks: Why NBA bigs struggle at the line -- and always will - ABC News

Chess Research - Thu, 07/21/2016 - 14:34

ABC News

Drowning in a sea of bricks: Why NBA bigs struggle at the line -- and always will
ABC News
However, research guru Michael Beuoy, of Inpredictable.com, found some other possible explanations for poor free throw shooting aside from hand size. A deep dive into SportVU-generated granular data revealed to Beuoy that tall players tend to have ...

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