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The St. Louis Chess Club holds a camps for children - KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis

CCSCSL News Feed - Tue, 06/19/2018 - 02:00
The St. Louis Chess Club holds a camps for children  KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis

ST. LOUIS - Now is the time to introduce your children to what could be a lifelong passion. The St. Louis Chess Club is offering three camps including a girls ...

IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds - WGRZ.com

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 22:56

WGRZ.com

IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds
WGRZ.com
SAN FRANCISCO — IBM computers famously won at Jeopardy! and beat world class chess masters. Now, they're ... “We believe that mastering language is a fundamental frontier that AI has to cross,” says IBM Research director Arvind Krishna. “There's ...
An IBM computer debates humans -- and wins -- in a new, nuanced competitionCNET
IBM debuts Project Debater, experimental AI that argues with humansVentureBeat

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IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds - USA TODAY

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 22:41

USA TODAY

IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds
USA TODAY
IBM Research's experimental artificial intelligence system, Project Debater, with debater Dan Zafrir. (Photo: IBM/handout) ... SAN FRANCISCO — IBM computers famously won at Jeopardy! and beat world class chess masters. Now, they're taking on human ...

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An IBM computer debates humans -- and wins -- in a new, nuanced competition - CNET

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 21:03

CNET

An IBM computer debates humans -- and wins -- in a new, nuanced competition
CNET
We saw computers beat humans at chess in 1997, beat humans at Jeopardy in 2011 and vanquish the world's best human players of the ancient game of Go in 2017. On Monday, a ... IBM Project Debater researchers Noam Slonim and Ranit Aharonov.
IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some mindsWGRZ.com

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IBM unveils AI that can debate humans live in its next Jeopardy! moment - The Australian Financial Review

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 21:01

The Australian Financial Review

IBM unveils AI that can debate humans live in its next Jeopardy! moment
The Australian Financial Review
IBM Research vice president of AI technology, Aya Soffer, told The Australian Financial Review the Project Debater breakthrough was more meaningful than its Jeopardy! and Deep Blue wins (when IBM's Deep Blue computer beat the world class chess ...

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Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik's Cube in Just 44 Hours - Gizmodo

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 12:01

Gizmodo

Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik's Cube in Just 44 Hours
Gizmodo
Unlike chess and Go—games in which it's relatively easy for a system to determine if a move was “good” or “bad”—it's not immediately clear to an AI that's trying to solve the Rubik's Cube if a particular move has improved the overall state of the ...

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MLB turns to BGSU professor to help study home run phenomenon - Toledo Blade

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 08:33

Toledo Blade

MLB turns to BGSU professor to help study home run phenomenon
Toledo Blade
Longtime BGSU statistics professor Jim Albert, who has done extensive research into baseball during his career, was part a 10-person committee created by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's office to answer one question. ... In such one 1999 paper that came ...

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After AlphaGo Zero's Fabulous Win, Why Hasn't DeepMind AI Come Up With Anything Spectacular? - Analytics India Magazine

Chess Research - Mon, 06/18/2018 - 06:43

Analytics India Magazine

After AlphaGo Zero's Fabulous Win, Why Hasn't DeepMind AI Come Up With Anything Spectacular?
Analytics India Magazine
DeepMind AI has explored chess and Go to develop its strongest programmes and sophisticated techniques, which is evident from the number of times it has beat human Go players. It improved a step further and developed AlphaGo ... With this research ...

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Malaysia among Asian emerging nations comfortable with Fed hikes - The Star Online

Chess Research - Sun, 06/17/2018 - 18:06

The Star Online

Malaysia among Asian emerging nations comfortable with Fed hikes
The Star Online
... forced by the Fed into action because some of them have such enormous surpluses that they would probably be happy to see weaker currencies and capital outflows, at the margin," said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC.

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A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess - Chess.com

Chess Research - Sun, 06/17/2018 - 15:42

Chess.com

A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess
Chess.com
This is hardly a life sentence; instead it's "Chess for Life." A 25-hour program in Alberta is a new alternative sentence to juveniles caught doing wrong. According to the article, the idea is an outgrowth of recent research showing that punitive ...

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A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess - Chess.com

Chess Research - Sun, 06/17/2018 - 02:00
A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess  Chess.com

Bye bye chain gang. Hello pawn chains. A new youth offenders program in Alberta, Canada, has an innovative way to get young people back on the right track: ...

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A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess - Chess.com

Chess Research - Sun, 06/17/2018 - 02:00
A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess  Chess.com

Bye bye chain gang. Hello pawn chains. A new youth offenders program in Alberta, Canada, has an innovative way to get young people back on the right track: ...

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A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess - Chess.com

Chess Research - Sun, 06/17/2018 - 02:00
A Judge's Sentence: 25 Hours Of Chess  Chess.com

Bye bye chain gang. Hello pawn chains. A new youth offenders program in Alberta, Canada, has an innovative way to get young people back on the right track: ...

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Chess notes - The Boston Globe

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Sat, 06/16/2018 - 23:10

The Boston Globe

Chess notes
The Boston Globe
We have just found out that 14-year-old Carissa Yip of Andover has earned her first International Master norm at an IM norm tournament at the Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy, in Charlotte, N.C. She needs two more norms to get the coveted title.

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Poker has a 'tell' about strategic thinkers - Medical Xpress

Chess Research - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 08:59

Medical Xpress

Poker has a 'tell' about strategic thinkers
Medical Xpress
Researchers from three universities studied the interactions of more than 35,000 individuals playing millions of poker hands online to gain insight into how people process strategic information in competitive settings. They found that expert players ...

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Poker Has a 'Tell' About Strategic Thinkers - UConn Today

Chess Research - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 07:01

UConn Today

Poker Has a 'Tell' About Strategic Thinkers
UConn Today
Researchers from three universities studied the interactions of more than 35,000 individuals playing millions of poker hands online to gain insight into how people process strategic information in competitive settings. They found that expert players ...

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The Art Of Time Management - Chess.com

Chess Research - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 02:04

Chess.com

The Art Of Time Management
Chess.com
It goes without saying that general chess improvement is directly proportional to speed; generally speaking, the better your are at chess, the better your speed-accuracy tradeoff will be. But time management is an art itself. I have distilled my own ...

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Fair play for top names - Financial Times

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 23:01

Financial Times

Fair play for top names
Financial Times
At Sies + Höke's booth, Marcel Dzama's collage, “Welcome to the land of the gun” (2018), made specifically for the fair, has also sold for $60,000. Other sales reported from Art Basel's opening day were varied and included Rebecca Warren's painted ...

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