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Ot Elmore's WV Wildcats to play hoops tourney for $2 million prize - Huntington Herald Dispatch
Huntington Herald Dispatch
Huntington Herald Dispatch
A Midwest Region play-in game between the West Virginia Wildcats and 17th-seeded Charlotte Chess Center tips off 7:50 p.m. Friday, July 20, in the Capital Center at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. The game will be streamed on ESPN3. ... The team ...
Chess star Soumya Swaminathan pulls out of Iran event over headscarf rule - Zee News
Zee News
Zee News
New Delhi: Ace Indian chess star Soumya Swaminathan has pulled out of an event in Iran's Hamadan over a headscarf rule for women participants. Swaminathan was to participate in the Asian Nations Cup Chess Championship which is scheduled to be held ...
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6 Chess masters Tackle The Problem Of Teaching Kids Chess. - Digital Journal
Digital Journal
To reinvigorate the interest of kids in a complex game like chess, 6 masters of chess have shared their solutions to teach children chess, contributing to the development of CrocoChess. Crocochess made by and for children, designed specifically ... and ...
Chess + Rogue = Chogue: Some notes on hybrid game design - Gamasutra (blog)
Gamasutra (blog)
The core research direction that Chogue represents for us (outside of it being funny and entertaining to make, we're both professors at a university so there's always that ulterior motive) is about the idea of hybridisation of games. If we think of ...
Machine learning takes on college dropouts - Building Design + Construction (press release)
Building Design + Construction (press release)
If AI-driven machines can defeat the world's greatest chess players and, even more improbable, the globe's premier Go strategist, what chance does a college dropout have against machine learning technology? Slim to none, predicts one university ...
6 Chess Masters Tackle the Problem of Teaching Kids Chess - Digital Journal
Digital Journal
Amsterdam, Netherlands -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/12/2018 -- To reinvigorate the interest of kids in a complex game like chess, 6 masters of chess have shared their solutions to teach children chess, contributing to the development of CrocoChess. Crocochess ...
Enterprises can now deploy own hardware in Rackspace data centres - ARNnet
ARNnet
ARNnet
Synergy Research Group chief analyst and research director John Dinsdale said the latest figures come amid a broader industry trend that sees enterprises pushing more of their data centre operations into colocation facilities while also driving more ...
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LI high schooler gives back after house fire - Newsday
A chess National Master, Warren Wang launched CHESSanity, a nonprofit that teaches young children how to play the game, with his brother.
Searching for tactics and classical manoeuvres - Chessbase News
Tactics are fun and solving tactics puzzles improves your chess. The search mask of ChessBase and Fritz allows you to quickly find games with sacrifices.
Why customer trust is more vital to brand survival than it's ever been - CMO
CMO
CMO
Speaking on behalf of the brand, McCrindle Research principal, Mark McCrindle, cites trust as a key thing in both life and society, and agrees it's become a far more important currency for brands in the face of mobile devices and social influence. “It ...
Finnish study finds healthy lifestyle improves memory in old age - Xinhua
Xinhua
A total of 1,262 Finns, who were over the age of 60 and had an increased risk for memory disorders, participated in the study as part of a research project called the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability ...
Teenage chess champ from Jericho gives back after house fire - Newsday
Newsday
Newsday
At Jericho, he has been president of the Chess Club, which has won four consecutive county titles and placed second in this year's Greater New York Scholastic Chess Championship. Wang was also one of five recipients this year of the U.S. Chess ...
ChessKid Crowns 7 National Champions In Its 7th Year - Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com
Rex Sinquefield vs. Rachael Li. Sorry, Rex, there's no CONIC section for you! | Photo: Austin Fuller/Saint Louis Chess Club. Rachael might have seen as the favorite in the Armageddon (the seven-year-old had already bagged a master in a rated game and ...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen to teach chess to young kids - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
... including math, spatial analysis, and non-verbal reasoning ability (Smith and Cage, 2000). See list below for a list of literature exploring the positive scholastic effects of chess. For more info, including requests for test versions and ...
World Champion Magnus Carlsen to teach chess to young kids - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
Research shows a strong correlation between learning to play chess and academic achievement. In a study conducted between 2013 and 2015 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, weekly math lessons in primary school were replaced with chess lessons ...
Soviet chess ace, 28, who stabbed a renowned psychology professor, 66, to death while fixing a light at his ... - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The man accused of murdering a renowned psychology professor in Brooklyn has claimed he acted in self-defense during a row about immigration. Mirzo Atadzhanov, 28, allegedly stabbed Jeremy Safran, 66, to death inside the professor's $2million home in ...
ChessKid Crowns 7 National Champions In Its 7th Year - Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com
Rex Sinquefield vs. Rachael Li. Sorry, Rex, there's no CONIC section for you! | Photo: Austin Fuller/Saint Louis Chess Club. Rachael might have seen as the favorite in the Armageddon (the seven-year-old had already bagged a master in a rated game and ...
ChessKid Crowns 7 National Champions In Its 7th Year - Chess.com
The seventh edition of the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship (CONIC) concluded last weekend with seven of the strongest American juniors ...
ChessKid Crowns 7 National Champions In Its 7th Year - Chess.com
The seventh edition of the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship (CONIC) concluded last weekend with seven of the strongest American juniors ...