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On Chess: March Madness at the PRO-Chess League - St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: March Madness at the PRO-Chess League - St. Louis Public Radio
European Chess Grandmasters earn their bread and butter by playing for clubs in leagues across Europe. Clubs hire grandmasters to play for their teams in the ...
On Chess: March Madness at the PRO-Chess League - St. Louis Public Radio
European Chess Grandmasters earn their bread and butter by playing for clubs in leagues across Europe. Clubs hire grandmasters to play for their teams in.
A new study reveals that certain drugs may make you smarter than we thought - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
The researchers selected 40 above-average chess players for the study. All were men, with an average age of 37 and an average IQ of 127.7. The group had an average Elo rating (a rating system for chess skill) in the 1670s, which puts them significantly ...
A sport for the brain - Suffolk News-Herald
Suffolk News-Herald
Members of the King's Fork chess team set a high bar this weekend at the Virginia Scholastic and College Chess Championships in Virginia Beach, a tournament organized by the Virginia Scholastic Chess Association. The tournament format called on team ...
Ambitious first-year students catch the research bug - Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Chronicle
Graduating a year early from Lansing High School, just outside of Ithaca, Campello contacted Cornell physics professor Jim Alexander, who connected him to staff at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). They gave him a tour, and Campello ...
DeepMind research brings strong AI one step closer - The Engineer
The Engineer
The Engineer
However, if you asked AlphaGo to take on Gary Kasparov in a game of chess, it would have to start learning that game from scratch, permanently leaving behind its enormous Go knowledge. This is known in cognitive science as catastrophic forgetting, and ...
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Concord freshman claims county chess champion title - Goshen News
Goshen News
Goshen News
Hunter claimed his crown by being the top Elkhart County resident in the championship section at the 31st Elkhart County Scholastic Chess Championships Saturday at Elkhart Central High School. Recovering from a first-round loss, Hunter won his last ...
Concord freshman claims county chess champion title | Local News - Goshen News
Hunter Gould, a Concord High School freshman, is the 2017 Elkhart County Scholastic Chess champion.
LHS, West Middle School among top winners at state chess championships - Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence was well represented at last weekend's Kansas Scholastic Chess Association state championships, with Lawrence High School finishing first in the overall K-12 competition and West Middle School taking home second place in the K-8 category.
Big turnout marks growth in youth chess - Edmond Sun
Edmond Sun
Edmond Sun
A record-setting 229 young chess players from 55 Oklahoma schools and homeschool associations competed in the five-round event for K–12 students, held in February at Ida Freeman Elementary and sponsored by the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess ...
Blue Hill Chess Team scores second in state tournament - The Ellsworth American
The Ellsworth American
BLUE HILL — The Blue Hill Consolidated School Chess A Team has placed second out of 13 in the 2017 State Scholastic Chess Team Championship Tournament. Maine's largest chess tournament was held Saturday at the University of Maine at Orono and ...
St. Louis Book Fair coming to a new location - 5 things to know - St. Louis Business Journal
St. Louis Business Journal
St. Louis Business Journal
The nation's top-three chess players — Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So — are set to battle it out as the top 24 chess players meet at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from March 28 through April 10 to ...
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Will Electronics and NSI Video Surveillance Partnership Making a Difference in St. Louis - Security Sales & Integration
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Security Sales & Integration
... Top 10 Neighborhoods, the Central West End features a mix of residential and commercial properties that include fine dining, entertainment, shopping, nightlife and some of St. Louis' oldest shops and unique attractions like the World Chess Hall of ...
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Scientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem and Find the Key to Human Consciousness - ScienceAlert
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ScienceAlert
Obviously, a little chess puzzle alone isn't going to reveal the key to human consciousness, but it's an intriguing approach to what seems like an impossible question, and we're pretty damn curious to see what the researchers make of the public's ...
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Scientists need you to solve this chess problem to help find the key ... - ScienceAlert
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ScienceAlert
Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it - where does it come from, and how does it ...
Scientists ask the public's help in getting to the bottom of ...ZME Science
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Scientists need you to solve this chess problem and find the key to ... - ScienceAlert
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ScienceAlert
Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it - where does it come from, and how does it ...
Does quantum theory explain human consciousness? | Daily Mail ...Daily Mail
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