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Oak Ridge teams excel at state chess team championships - Oak Ridge Today
Oak Ridge High School Freshmen Chess Team: Levi Parish, Adam Herron, Kenny Adams, and Dan Joy (Photo courtesy Esther Parish). Every year, the top four ...
On Chess: The 169-year-old modern chess set - St. Louis Public Radio
Chess has been called a universal language. Granted, the pieces have different names in different countries, so a piece named a knight in the U.S. is.
On Chess: The 169-year-old modern chess set - St. Louis Public Radio
Chess has been called a universal language. Granted, the pieces have different names in different countries, so a piece named a knight in the U.S. is.
'Your move' – chess champion Le Nguyen - Daily Herald
Daily Herald
Daily Herald
In Vietnam, his coach would help him research his opponents. He would study his opponents opening moves and habits. He could prepare and use psychological tricks to help him. “Sometimes a player has an opening move that they play really well off of. If ...
Girl Power: Female Team Members help Henderson Chess Team Qualify for Nationals - El Paso Herald-Post (press release) (blog)
El Paso Herald-Post (press release) (blog)
El Paso Herald-Post (press release) (blog)
Henderson placed first in the JV and Novice divisions and earned the title of Grand Champion title at the 2018 Texas Scholastic Championship. Half of the 24-member team is made up of girls – a rarity among chess teams in the country. “To my knowledge ...
Silent headset let's users quietly commune with computers - New Atlas
New Atlas
New Atlas
Advances in voice recognition technology have seen it become a more viable form of computer interface, but it's not necessarily a quieter one. To prevent the click-clacking of keyboards being replaced by noisy man-machine conversations, MIT researchers ...
Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently” - MIT News
MIT News
MIT News
In one of the researchers' experiments, for instance, subjects used the system to silently report opponents' moves in a chess game and just as silently receive computer-recommended responses. “The motivation for this was to build an IA device — an ...
Cryptocurrency in Focus: CHESS ChessCoin (CHESS) Touches $0.0042 - Coin Journal
Coin Journal
Tracking cryptocurrency market movement, we can see that CHESS ChessCoin (CHESS) has recently touched $0.0042. Following some historical information, we see that the cryptocurrency has changed -10.28%% over the last 24 hours, and moved -14.64%% over ...
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LISD to host scholastic chess tournament - KGNS.tv
KGNS.tv
KGNS.tv
The five round swiss style tournament is open to all scholastic chess players in elementary, through high school. The tournament will take place at the Jesus Martinez Performing Arts Complex Ballroom, formerly known as the Laredo Civic Center from 7:30 ...
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LISD to host scholastic chess tournament - KGNS.tv
KGNS.tv
KGNS.tv
LISD to host scholastic chess tournament. Posted: Wed 12:06 PM, Apr 04, 2018. LAREDO, TX (KGNS) - The Laredo Independent School District is inviting all chess players to put their skills to the test. LISD will be hosting a chess tournament for all ...
Innovators in AI and more set to gather for FICO World 2018 - Auto Remarketing
Auto Remarketing
Auto Remarketing
Thrun is the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a personal airborne vehicle company, and co-founder and president of Udacity, an online private educational organization. He was a Google Fellow and vice president, and a research professor at Stanford University. Thrun ...
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How Trump's Bad Moves Are Hurting Your Portfolio - Investment U
Investment U
Investment U
We had the world's highest corporate tax rate. Now we have one of the world's most competitive. That has incentivized U.S. multinationals to repatriate tens of billions in overseas profits. It will also attract foreign investment and give businesses ...
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LISD to host scholastic chess tournament - KGNS.tv
The Laredo Independent School District is inviting all chess players to put their skills to the test.
Artificial Intelligent Agents: Prerequisites for Rights and Dignity - CSS Resources (blog)
CSS Resources (blog)
CSS Resources (blog)
IBM's Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer that achieved remarkable success in 1997 when it defeated the world champion Gary Kasparov in 19 moves. Kasparov had never lost a match to a human in under 20 moves. He managed to beat Deep Blue in the next ...
Four students win Junior League of Miami scholarships - Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Christopher Page, 9, of Sunset Elementary School was recently named the 2018 State of Florida Chess Champion after his performance in the Florida Chess Association's 2018 Florida State Scholastic Championship in Orlando. As a South Florida native ...
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Four students win Junior League of Miami scholarships - Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Christopher Page, 9, of Sunset Elementary School was recently named the 2018 State of Florida Chess Champion after his performance in the Florida Chess Association's 2018 Florida State Scholastic Championship in Orlando. As a South Florida native ...
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EDITORIAL: Chess may offer islanders remarkable opportunities - Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
Community newspapers throughout the country have long contained sports pages dedicated to the trials and tribulations of high school sports teams. The Beachcomber is no different, and we enjoy reading each week about how the various teams are faring ...
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Free PDF download: A Winning Strategy for Cybersecurity - ZDNet
ZDNet
ZDNet
chess pieces on board Image: iStockphoto/Germanovich. Cyberattacks and breaches can happen to any business, of any size, and they have the power to do serious damage to a company's finances and reputation. This special report from ZDNet and ...
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Club Briefs: Noontime Rotary's students of the month - Marco News
Marco News
Marco News
Chess K-12 for all students from K-12. Parents, grandparents or guardians encouraged to attend. The club meets each Monday, 9 a.m. to noon at Marco Lutheran Church, 525 N. Collier. Chess Marco for all chess players of all ages meets each Monday 9 a.m ...
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Chess coach calls state tournament finish 'unprecedented' - Post-Bulletin
Post-Bulletin
Post-Bulletin
Lourdes put five players into the upper level, and Justin Ricker, who plays for Lourdes in the Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League (RASCL) season, finished fourth in the state. “If you want to win at the state championship, that's the section you ...
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