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Celebrate Orrin Hudson's Memorial Day Weekend Birthday Bash - On Common Ground News
On Common Ground News
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 ...
Canada Tries New Tack for Young Offenders: Chess - Crime Report
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 ...
Youth scholastic chess tournament champions - Virgin Islands Daily News
Virgin Islands Daily News
Virgin Islands Daily News
The prize winners in the youth scholastic chess tournament, held May 12 at Charlotte Amalie High School on St. Thomas, and sponsored by the Rotary Club of St. Thomas II: (front row, from left) Drake Walters, Virgin Islands Montessori School (third ...
27 museums where you can learn something new this summer - STLtoday.com
Want to learn something new while basking in air-conditioned comfort? Visit one of the area's dozens of museums. Old favorites usually have new exhibits to ...
Durarbayli endures in St. Louis Summer Classic - Chessbase News
Vasif Durarbayli doubled up Varuzhan Akobian in a rapid tiebreak for first place in the top 'A' group of the St. Louis Summer Classic, winning both playoff games ...
On Chess: How you can best learn from both modern and classical chess at the same time? - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
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 ...
Putt-Putt Goes Picasso - Ladue News
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 ...
Putt-Putt Goes Picasso - Ladue News
Ladue News
The titles and creators of the exhibition's individual holes follow: Hole 1, Warped Tour by Andy VanMater of CannonDesign; Hole 2, Distortion by Arcturis; Hole 3, Mate in Four by the World Chess Hall of Fame; Hole 4, Alice by Natalie Pinson; Hole 5 ...
Altibox Norway Chess Takes Off On Sunday - Chess.com
Chess.com
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 ...
'A Queen Within' and the celebration of unchecked female power - Document Journal
Document Journal
Originally conceived as the first fashion exhibition to ever take place at the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri, A Queen Within served as an unlikely sartorial celebration of the shapeshifting powers of the chess board's matriarch. A ...
How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child - Science Magazine
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 ...
Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
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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Chess Tournaments Calendar - Chess.com
Find out when the top chess events and tournaments are taking place! Missing a strong event? Please let us know in the comments. FEBRUARY 2019 Date ...
2018 Chess Tournaments Results - Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com
For the 10th year in a row, the U.S. Championships were held at the chess club in St. Louis and sponsored by its patron, Rex Sinquefield. Sam Shankland won his first title, despite the presence of three top 10 players: Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura ...
A Queen Within and the celebration of unchecked female power - Document Journal
As the exhibition 'A Queen Within' at the New Orleans Museum of Art enters its final week, Document speaks with the show's curators about the history of ...
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, ...
Lance Grigg - The Conversation CA
The Conversation CA
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 ...
Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results - The Conversation CA
The Conversation CA
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 ...
Kidsburgh: Teen Helping Underprivileged Kids By Teaching Them Chess - CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Research shows that playing chess makes you smarter. Now, a local teenager is working to improve the lives of underprivileged children by teaching them chess. Ashley Priore created a non-profit four years ago when she was ...
Kidsburgh: Teen Helping Underprivileged Kids By Teaching Them Chess - CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Research shows that playing chess makes you smarter. Now, a local teenager is working to improve the lives of underprivileged children by teaching them chess. Ashley Priore created a non-profit four years ago when she was ...