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Education Notebook: Barnard's chess team brings home the gold - San Diego Community News

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 12/15/2017 - 10:09

Education Notebook: Barnard's chess team brings home the gold
San Diego Community News
Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School's student chess team continues to collect trophies at local and national chess competitions. Six students spent Thanksgiving weekend at the American Open Tournament in Costa Mesa, one of the longest-running ...

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On Chess: Grandmaster Caruana wins 2017 London Chess Classic ... - St. Louis Public Radio

In the News - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 14:08

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: Grandmaster Caruana wins 2017 London Chess Classic ...
St. Louis Public Radio
The last leg of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour, the London Chess Classic, produced not one, but two winners. For the first time, the winner of the London tournament wasn't also the overall tour winner. After a dramatic last round, St. Louis resident Fabiano ...

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ASU applied mathematics doctoral grad found inspiration in high school math program - Arizona State University

Chess Research - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 13:46

Arizona State University

ASU applied mathematics doctoral grad found inspiration in high school math program
Arizona State University
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here. Arizona State University graduate Javier Baez was interested in chess at an early age and enjoyed solving puzzles. He liked math but did not think ...

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Aurelius and Windstream's Game of Debt Chess Heads to Court - BloombergQuint

Chess Research - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 11:43

BloombergQuint

Aurelius and Windstream's Game of Debt Chess Heads to Court
BloombergQuint
... trial in May. As the hearing approaches, credit and restructuring experts say the closely watched drama will set precedents for whether defaults can be manufactured -- as Windstream argues is the case here -- in a slow restructuring market ...

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Hedge Fund Takes Rural Phone Company to Court Over Debt Drama - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 11:25

Hedge Fund Takes Rural Phone Company to Court Over Debt Drama
Bloomberg
The Uniti transaction doesn't appear to have breached covenants to begin with, the independent credit research firm said in a Dec. 8 note. Yet even if Windstream triumphs against Aurelius in court, it may not be the end of this restructuring saga. The ...

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Armenia to have Scientific Research Institute of Chess - Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)

Chess Research - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 07:58

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)

Armenia to have Scientific Research Institute of Chess
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
YEREVAN. – The government of Armenia has allocated 31.9 million drams (about US$66,000) from the reserve fund, for the establishment of the Scientific Research Institute of Chess. The decision to this effect was adopted at Thursday's Cabinet meeting of ...

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On Chess: Grandmaster Caruana wins 2017 London Chess Classic - St. Louis Public Radio

In the News - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 02:00
On Chess: Grandmaster Caruana wins 2017 London Chess Classic  St. Louis Public Radio

The last leg of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour, the London Chess Classic, produced not one, but two winners. For the first time, the winner of the London.

On Chess: Grandmaster Caruana wins 2017 London Chess Classic - St. Louis Public Radio

In the News - Thu, 12/14/2017 - 02:00
On Chess: Grandmaster Caruana wins 2017 London Chess Classic  St. Louis Public Radio

The last leg of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour, the London Chess Classic, produced not one, but two winners. For the first time, the winner of the London.

アートギャラリー David Zwirner がジェフ・クーンズの作品や Frank Ocean の写真などをオンラインで限定販売中 - HYPEBEAST (ブログ)

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Wed, 12/13/2017 - 19:17

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アートギャラリー David Zwirner がジェフ・クーンズの作品や Frank Ocean の写真などをオンラインで限定販売中
HYPEBEAST (ブログ)
そのオンラインページには、ステンレス製のバルーンアニマルで知られるアーティストのJeff Koons(ジェフ・クーンズ)、著名ドイツ人フォトグラファーのWolfgang Tillmans(ヴォルフガング・ティルマンス)、アイロニックな漫画風の作品で知られるアーティストのRaymond Pettibon(レイモンド・ペティボン)、“最初のカラー写真家”とも ...

Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board - The Register

Chess Research - Wed, 12/13/2017 - 19:08

The Register

Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board
The Register
“Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion ...

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Inferior by Angela Saini wins Physics World's 2017 Book of the Year - physicsworld.com

Chess Research - Wed, 12/13/2017 - 11:41

Inferior by Angela Saini wins Physics World's 2017 Book of the Year
physicsworld.com
Saini found that the clashing research results were a feature of the controversy within the fields themselves, thanks to bias, prejudice and speculation by the researchers themselves. The book touches upon controversial gender studies in in biology ...

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Chess wiz 'alien' AlphaZero is an AI game-changer - Hindu Business Line

Chess Research - Wed, 12/13/2017 - 10:11

Hindu Business Line

Chess wiz 'alien' AlphaZero is an AI game-changer
Hindu Business Line
As FIDE Master Mile Klein noted on chess.com, it's comparable to “a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it ...

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Dr. Pamela Sklar, scientist who studied the genetics of mental illness - Baltimore Sun

Chess Research - Tue, 12/12/2017 - 14:07

Baltimore Sun

Dr. Pamela Sklar, scientist who studied the genetics of mental illness
Baltimore Sun
... Dr, Sklar co-founded the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. She also served as chair of the department of genetics and genomic sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...

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Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research

Chess Research - Tue, 12/12/2017 - 12:13

Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...

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AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI - ExtremeTech

Chess Research - Tue, 12/12/2017 - 07:00

ExtremeTech

AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...

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AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI - ExtremeTech

Chess Research - Tue, 12/12/2017 - 06:33

ExtremeTech

AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...

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Inside the world's biggest and most important AI conference - Quartz

Chess Research - Tue, 12/12/2017 - 06:11

Inside the world's biggest and most important AI conference
Quartz
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, 41, whose team dropped new research showing that its world champion Go-playing AI had also mastered chess and shogi, stepped up to a microphone after a talk to rebut comments from NYU professor and ex-Uber AI guru Gary ...

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Oak Hall, area teams perform well at national chess tournament - Gainesville Sun

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Mon, 12/11/2017 - 17:54

Gainesville Sun

Oak Hall, area teams perform well at national chess tournament
Gainesville Sun
Oak Hall Academy's chess teams, motivated by the prospect of seeing their coaches forced to dance in tutus, clobbered the competition at the K-12 national tournament in Orlando last weekend. Teams from the school captured first place in kindergarten ...

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