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Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination - KSDK

In the News - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 21:41

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Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination
KSDK
Transgender woman Elaine Cao filed a lawsuit on Monday against her former employer, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. Cao said a manager fired her after she came to work presenting as a female. Cao started working for the center in ...

Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination - KSDK

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 21:41

KSDK

Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination
KSDK
Transgender woman Elaine Cao filed a lawsuit on Monday against her former employer, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. Cao said a manager fired her after she came to work presenting as a female. Cao started working for the center in ...

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Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination - KSDK

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 21:41

KSDK

Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination
KSDK
That's not right," he said. Tony Rich, the executive director of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis released the following statement on the matter: While the Chess Club is not at liberty to discuss the specifics of any pending legal ...

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Good Video Game Players Are More Intelligent, Study Says - CBS St. Louis

Chess Research - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 14:23

Good Video Game Players Are More Intelligent, Study Says
CBS St. Louis
Research in the past has pointed to the fact that people who are good at strategy games such as chess tend to score highly at IQ tests. Our research has extended this to games that millions of people across the planet play every day,” Professor Alex ...

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Researchers Created the First Hybrid Link for a Quantum Internet - Motherboard

Chess Research - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 12:49

Motherboard

Researchers Created the First Hybrid Link for a Quantum Internet
Motherboard
A handful of governments, financial and research institutions have had small internal networks for routing information between experimental quantum computers for years, and earlier this year China successfully routed quantum information through a ...

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Metro West calendar: Nov. 22-29 - Charleston Gazette-Mail

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 08:08

Metro West calendar: Nov. 22-29
Charleston Gazette-Mail
Chess Tournament: The West Virginia Scholastic Chess Association' fall chess tournament will take place at St. Francis of Assisi School in St. Albans. This is the kick-off event for many K-12 area school chess teams who start their practices when fall ...

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Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination - KSDK

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 02:00
Transgender woman sues Chess Club for discrimination  KSDK

Transgender woman Elaine Cao filed a lawsuit on Monday against her former employer, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. Cao said a manager ...

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Kavira Singh wins First Flight Chess Novice title - Trinidad News

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 11/22/2017 - 01:45

Kavira Singh wins First Flight Chess Novice title
Trinidad News
Nine-year-old Kavira Singh of Cedar Grove Private School finished unbeaten en route to winning the Novice A category of the First Flight Scholastic Chess tournament. The event, sponsored by First Flight Air Ambulance Company, took place on Saturday at ...

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JA survey shows need to promote entrepreneurship among teens - Quad City Times

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 23:09

Quad City Times

JA survey shows need to promote entrepreneurship among teens
Quad City Times
When today's teens are thinking about their future careers, entrepreneurship does not necessarily roll off the tongue. In fact, new research conducted on behalf of Junior Achievement and EY Research shows parents are much more interested in seeing ...

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Transgender woman alleges discrimination in suit against St. Louis chess center - STLtoday.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 17:38

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Transgender woman alleges discrimination in suit against St. Louis chess center
STLtoday.com
ST. LOUIS • A transgender woman has sued the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, alleging she was fired last year when she showed up for work at the chess center presenting as a woman. She had previously presented as male. Elaine Cao, 24 ...

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Naked Chess, Snoop Dogg, And Best Chess Ad Ever - Chess.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 15:50

Chess.com

Naked Chess, Snoop Dogg, And Best Chess Ad Ever
Chess.com
Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, 35, a Green Beret and former scholastic chess champion, was one of four American servicemen ambushed and killed in Niger last month. Black got his beginnings in chess in fourth grade at the Tacoma Chess Club, just outside ...

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A Calculated Decision: Why John Urschel Chose Math Over Football - Sports Illustrated

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 10:18

Sports Illustrated

A Calculated Decision: Why John Urschel Chose Math Over Football
Sports Illustrated
Urschel was doing additional research with a few of his MIT professors, putting the finishing touches on two papers they had been working on dealing with Determinantal Point Processes, and he was also getting more and more into chess, a hobby he'd ...

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Being Good At Multiplayer Video Games Linked To Higher Intelligence, Study Finds - Science Trends

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 09:58

Science Trends

Being Good At Multiplayer Video Games Linked To Higher Intelligence, Study Finds
Science Trends
The researchers noted that the data found that performance in strategy games like Dota 2 and League of Legends tended to be at its peak for gamers around their mid-20s. This reflects similar findings with more traditional strategy games like chess ...

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St. Louis Chess Center Fired Trans Woman for 'Gender Non-Conforming Appearance,' Suit Alleges - Riverfront Times (blog)

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 09:46

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St. Louis Chess Center Fired Trans Woman for 'Gender Non-Conforming Appearance,' Suit Alleges
Riverfront Times (blog)
But for Cao, Monday marked a separate milestone: Earlier that day, she filed a lawsuit against her former employer, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, alleging that a manager fired her after she came to work presenting as female ...

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In Kentucky, Transparent Pie Is Clearly A Thanksgiving Winner - WUNC

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 09:32

WUNC

In Kentucky, Transparent Pie Is Clearly A Thanksgiving Winner
WUNC
"What everyone in my research kept coming back to over and over is that it's a pie that doesn't require something expensive like pecans," Baird says. "They are kind of farm ingredients, right? You are going to have all those ingredients in ... Back at ...

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In Kentucky, Transparent Pie Is Clearly A Thanksgiving Winner - NPR

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 09:00

NPR

In Kentucky, Transparent Pie Is Clearly A Thanksgiving Winner
NPR
"What everyone in my research kept coming back to over and over is that it's a pie that doesn't require something expensive like pecans," Baird says. "They are kind of farm ingredients, right? You are going to have all those ingredients in ... Back at ...

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Mastery Of Video Games May Indicate Superior Intellect, Study Finds - Study Finds

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 08:28

Study Finds

Mastery Of Video Games May Indicate Superior Intellect, Study Finds
Study Finds
Research in the past has pointed to the fact that people who are good at strategy games such as chess tend to score highly at IQ tests,” says corresponding author, professor Alex Wade, in a university media release. Our research has extended this to ...

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Brain training games such as Sudoku do NOT make you smarter, find scientists who reviewed three decades of research - Daily Mail

Chess Research - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 08:04

Daily Mail

Brain training games such as Sudoku do NOT make you smarter, find scientists who reviewed three decades of research
Daily Mail
From doing Sudoku every morning to playing more chess to learning a musical instrument, lots of people try different ways to become smarter and improve their memory. Thirty-five years after a landmark memory training experiment in 1982, have scientists ...

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