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World Chess Hall of Fame chess sets - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
World Chess Hall of Fame chess sets - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
World Chess Hall of Fame chess sets - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Karjakin Nearly Perfect But Aronian Extends Lead In St. Louis - Chess.com
Agonized Grand Prix Resumes In Geneva - Chess.com
Agonized Grand Prix Resumes In Geneva - Chess.com
Thursday the third leg of the FIDE Grand Prix started in Geneva, Switzerland. The first round saw four decisive results, including a black win for Teimour ...
Drawing Center's Brett Littman Will Lead Noguchi Museum - - ARTnews
After more than ten years as director of the Drawing Center in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, Brett Littman has been hired to head the Noguchi Museum in ...
Student to get crash course on D-Day - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Nevertheless, the upperclassman – who wants to study history in college – knew participation in the Normandy: Sacrifice for Freedom Albert H. Small Student & Teacher Institute would offer a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Indiana Historical Society ...
Local students compete across the board at Chess for Success competition - KATU
KATU
KATU
The matches were put on by the nonprofit group Chess for Success; their goal is to help children succeed by learning the game. “It involves a lot of ... you have to use your head a lot. It's more than just physical,” said Breslin, one of the ...
[Faces of Black History] Meet Maurice Ashley, the first black chess grandmaster - Face2Face Africa
Face2Face Africa
Face2Face Africa
Face2Face Africa presents the Faces of Black History – a daily series in the month of February to celebrate people of colour who have opened the door of hope for young black people to realize their dreams. In commemoration of Black History Month, we ...
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Bowles knows chess - Paducah Sun
Paducah Sun
Paducah Sun
Ameer Johnson Bowles, a student at Paducah Tilghman High School, makes a move in her second-round game at the Paducah Tilghman Scholastic Chess Tournament on Saturday. PTHS students were among the 131 regional students taking part in the tournament ...
The biggest limitation of artificial intelligence is it's only as smart as the data sets served - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
The system that plays chess cannot play solitaire or poker. In health care, AI applications can provide personalised medicine and diagnostic readings. A personal health care assistant or “bot” can act as a lifestyle adviser, reminding you to take your ...
Oak Ridge students earn spots in state chess tournament - Oak Ridge Today
Oak Ridge Today
Oak Ridge Today
Oak Ridge students have earned spots in the state championship chess tournament this month. The Tennessee Chess Association Individual Regional Tournament was Saturday, January 27, at Oak Ridge High School. There were 36 competitors representing Oak ...
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'Angry 18' Aldermen Want Rex Sinquefield Out - CBS St. Louis
CBS St. Louis
CBS St. Louis
“Rex Sinquefield and I don't really have a relationship other than through the Chess Club,” she said. “He's not one of my contributors.” Krewson says if the airport doesn't get privatized, Sinquefield doesn't recoup any of his money. “The decision is ...
9 fun things to do this first weekend of February - CBC.ca
CBC.ca
CBC.ca
Sunday at Colonel Gray High School in Charlottetown, there's a scholastic chess tournament from 1 to 4 p.m., with registration starting at 12:15. It's open to all students in kindergarten to Grade 12. Players will be split into groups of four or six ...
Fidel Castro's eldest son, a physicist, is victim of apparent suicide - Science Magazine
Science Magazine
Science Magazine
Physicist Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, the eldest son of Fidel Castro, committed suicide yesterday after undergoing months of treatment for depression, Cuba's state media has reported. He was 68. Fidelito, as Castro Díaz-Balart was affectionately known in ...
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AI and brain interfaces may be about to change how we make music - Big Think (blog)
Big Think (blog)
In September 2017, researchers led by BCI expert Gernot Müller-Putz from TU Graz's Institute of Neural Engineering published research in PLOS/One describing their “Brain Composer” project that leveraged P300 to bring musical ideas directly from ...
Rep. Mark Meadows clarifies exactly what is at stake with the FISA memo - Washington Times
Washington Times
Washington Times
Focus on the dossier here—the political opposition research project put together by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the DNC by extension. Quite simply: This infamous “Russian Dossier” was unverified political opposition research paid for by the ...
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Rep. Mark Meadows clarifies exactly what is at stake with the FISA memo - Washington Times
Washington Times
Washington Times
Focus on the dossier here—the political opposition research project put together by Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the DNC by extension. Quite simply: This infamous “Russian Dossier” was unverified political opposition research paid for by the ...
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Three years of research creates striking Journeys with The Waste Land exhibition at Turner Contemporary - The Isle of Thanet News
The Isle of Thanet News
The Isle of Thanet News
The works are a combination of many formats, from black and white photography to the voyeurism of Hopper's peek into someone's privacy in Night Windows, a bold chess style installation by Barbara Kruger and the striking Twombly canvases stood in a ...
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