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Engineering Design Pod: The Newest Innovation Center - Duke Today (blog)

Chess Research - Sun, 10/15/2017 - 13:00

Engineering Design Pod: The Newest Innovation Center
Duke Today (blog)
The “Design Pod” was created alongside Duke's new engineering design course in order to to foster learning through hands-on experience. Students have tested out the 3D printer to create items such as a skull and even chess pieces. There's a massive ...

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Cepeda: There are no winners in Dreamers debate - Danville Commercial News

Chess Research - Sat, 10/14/2017 - 22:12

Cepeda: There are no winners in Dreamers debate
Danville Commercial News
Nothing that has come out of the White House in the past eight months smacks of the cunning necessary to actually play a chess game, let alone win it. What Weingarten hit on the nose is that people despise D.C. ... Public confidence in government is ...

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William Lombardy, Chess Grandmaster Turned Priest, Dies at 79 - New York Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Sat, 10/14/2017 - 21:30

New York Times

William Lombardy, Chess Grandmaster Turned Priest, Dies at 79
New York Times
William J. Lombardy, who was one of the most talented and promising chess players of his generation, winning titles and accolades while he was still a teenager, but who all but gave up the game at the height of his career to become a priest, died on ...

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Columbus Chess Teacher Honored with NSCF 2017 Scholastic Service Award - Talk of the Sound

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Sat, 10/14/2017 - 08:17

Talk of the Sound

Columbus Chess Teacher Honored with NSCF 2017 Scholastic Service Award
Talk of the Sound
NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- Despite persistent rain and gusty breezes, over 150 children and parents came out for an afternoon of chess on Columbus Day at the New Rochelle Public Library. The event, produced by the National Scholastic Chess Foundation, ...

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UI hosting new K-12 chess tournament on Oct. 22 - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 10/13/2017 - 19:45

UI hosting new K-12 chess tournament on Oct. 22
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
The event, called the Treasure Chess K-12 Scholastic Tournament, runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 22. The five-round tournament includes four sections rated by the U.S. Chess Federation for high-quality chess players and five unrated sections. All ...

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Composer Spotlight Series: Tchaikovsky - South County Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Fri, 10/13/2017 - 04:56

Composer Spotlight Series: Tchaikovsky
South County Times
Composer Spotlight Series: Tchaikovsky will be presented Thursday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m., at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. in the Central West End. Tickets are $10; $5 tickets available for members, seniors and military. Admission includes ...

Composer Spotlight Series: Tchaikovsky - West End Word

World Chess Hall of Fame - Fri, 10/13/2017 - 04:56

Composer Spotlight Series: Tchaikovsky
West End Word
Composer Spotlight Series: Tchaikovsky will be presented Thursday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m., at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. in the Central West End. Tickets are $10; $5 tickets available for members, seniors and military. Admission includes ...

Kenneth R. Fountain Jr., PhD - Columbia Daily Tribune

Chess Research - Thu, 10/12/2017 - 20:28

Kenneth R. Fountain Jr., PhD
Columbia Daily Tribune
He wrote many published scientific and evidence based education theory papers, as well as several successful grants, and was a pioneer in mentoring undergraduates to perform chemical research. Having loved chemistry from the age of eight, he was ...

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Bryan Christopher Black, Aug. 3, 1982 - Oct. 4, 2017 - Tehachapi News

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 10/12/2017 - 18:40

Tehachapi News

Bryan Christopher Black, Aug. 3, 1982 - Oct. 4, 2017
Tehachapi News
He became irritated in the fourth grade when his brother won a trophy at a chess tournament and he didn't. He turned his frustration into action, spending an entire summer studying and learning chess. Bryan then dominated scholastic chess in Washington ...

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Tournament Chess Supplier, The House of Staunton, Provides an Inside Look into the World of Competitive Chess - Markets Insider

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 10/12/2017 - 16:43

Tournament Chess Supplier, The House of Staunton, Provides an Inside Look into the World of Competitive Chess
Markets Insider
Many professional players will use online programs to help them train, and most will have been part of a scholastic chess program at some point in time. Of course, no day is complete without physical activity. Chess requires tremendous endurance and ...

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Brain waves reflect different types of learning - Science Daily

Chess Research - Thu, 10/12/2017 - 14:53

Science Daily

Brain waves reflect different types of learning
Science Daily
Explicit learning "is learning that you have conscious awareness of, when you think about what you're learning and you can articulate what you've learned, like memorizing a long passage in a book or learning the steps of a complex game like chess ...

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Researchers identify neural signatures of explicit and implicit learning - Medical Xpress

Chess Research - Thu, 10/12/2017 - 05:22

Medical Xpress

Researchers identify neural signatures of explicit and implicit learning
Medical Xpress
Explicit learning "is learning that you have conscious awareness of, when you think about what you're learning and you can articulate what you've learned, like memorizing a long passage in a book or learning the steps of a complex game like chess ...

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Democrats Are Playing Checkers While Trump Is Playing Chess - New York Times

Chess Research - Thu, 10/12/2017 - 03:12

New York Times

Democrats Are Playing Checkers While Trump Is Playing Chess
New York Times
A Pew Research Center survey released earlier this month documented the growth of the partisan divide: “the median (middle) Republican is now more conservative than 97% of Democrats, and the median Democrat is more liberal than 95% of Republicans.

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The Walnut St. West Library children's chess club won first place in the 2017 MasterMinds Scholastic Summer Chess ... - University City Review

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 10/11/2017 - 16:53

The Walnut St. West Library children's chess club won first place in the 2017 MasterMinds Scholastic Summer Chess ...
University City Review
The children attended the tournament four times over the summer. Pictured are our lead coach Molly Saweikis, and club members Arnesh Das, Bu Long, Luke Zhu, and Rishab Das. Other children who participated in the tournament this summer from Walnut ...

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Technicals Focus on Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research

Chess Research - Wed, 10/11/2017 - 12:15

Technicals Focus on Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
Technical analysis is a trading tool that used to scrutinize securities as well as an attempt to forecast their future movements by analyzing trading activity statistics such as volume and price fluctuations. Where fundamental analysts attempt to ...

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Brain waves reflect different types of learning - MIT News

Chess Research - Wed, 10/11/2017 - 11:02

MIT News

Brain waves reflect different types of learning
MIT News
Figuring out how to pedal a bike and memorizing the rules of chess require two different types of learning, and now for the first time, researchers have been able to distinguish each type of learning by the brain-wave patterns it produces. These ...

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No One Asked Me But… (October 11, 2017) - mvprogress

Chess Research - Wed, 10/11/2017 - 05:22

No One Asked Me But… (October 11, 2017)
mvprogress
No one asked me but… Did you know you can get a full ride chess scholarship to St. Louis University? Apparently this is true of many major universities in America today. I have no problem with this I merely find it interesting. Parents, you may be ...

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