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Scientists show cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
Now a new double-blind randomised controlled trial by scientists from German and Swedish universities has shown that the cognitive enhancing drugs, modafinil, methylphenidate, and caffeine can improve chess play. Previous research had shown that the ...
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Longmont-area events for the week of March 6, 2017 - Longmont Times-Call
Longmont Times-Call
Chess Club — Players of all levels are welcome. Best for ages 7 and up. No registration required ... Beth Benko is a professional genealogist providing family history research for clients and lecturing to local organizations. Beth holds a bachelor's ...
Kids compete in Alabaster Scholastic Chess Tournament - Shelby County Reporter
Chess and Physics in the classroom - Chessbase News
While comparisons between chess and mathematics and chess and science are not new, with greats such as Feynman elaborating, the article here is more than ...
Cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play, scientists show - Science Daily
The first study to both show and measure the effects of cognitive-enhancing drugs such as modafinil, methylphenidate (best known under the trade name Ritalin) ...
Chess and Physics in the classroom - Chessbase News
While comparisons between chess and mathematics and chess and science are not new, with greats such as Feynman elaborating, the article here is more than ...
Kids compete in Alabaster Scholastic Chess Tournament - Shelby County Reporter - Shelby County Reporter
ALABASTER- Kids from all over the state of Alabama competed in the ninth annual Alabaster Scholastic Chess Tournament at Thompson Intermediate School ...
YISD students win big at chess championship - KVIA El Paso
KVIA El Paso
KVIA El Paso
ARLINGTON, Texas - Two YISD students won big at the 2017 North-Central Scholastic Chess Championship in Arlington, Texas this weekend. Anneliese Garcia, a third grader at Vista Hills Elementary School, placed 8th in the Individual Trophy category at ...
Chess provides bond between Oklahoman, African youth - Mcalester News Capital
Mcalester News Capital
Mcalester News Capital
Smith reached out to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis about Badjie, and ultimately the young Gambian was introduced to Danny Machuca, a senior chess associate at the Chess Club. “I moved (to St. Louis) from L.A. a year-and-a-half ago,” ...
Chess Championships - Paducah Sun
Paducah Sun
Paducah Sun
Trinity McDonough, 8, of Paducah, reviews chess strategy with her father, Michael, before a match at the State Individual Scholastic Chess Championships on Saturday at Murray State University-Paducah Regional Campus. More than 100 kindergarten ...
UoH to get ₹113 crore funding from Defence Ministry - The Hindu
The Hindu
A series of discussions with various DRDO labs such as HEMRL, TBRL, LASTEC, CHESS, NSTL, CEEFS, DMRL and LIC preceded the finalisation of the project proposals recommended by an expert committee, Prof. Appa Rao said. The research will be ...
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At the Galleries - Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Featuring works by John Scott, Marcel Dzama, Istvan Kantor, Angela Grossman, Allyson Clay, Jane Ash Poitras. The gallery is at 51 Campus Dr. at the University of Saskatchewan agriculture building. Visit art.usask.ca. College Art Galleries: Material ...
Hyderabad University research projects bags Rs113 cr funding - Hindu Business Line
Hindu Business Line
Hindu Business Line
Strategic research projects at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) Centre-ARCHEM supported by the Defence Ministry will get a whopping Rs. 113 crore funding for the next five years. The University, among the top five in the country will very soon become ...
The Share Trading Style Chess Grandmasters Use - Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
His opponent, Deep Blue, was a chess computer birthed in an IBM research lab. On 11 May 1997, the two squared off against one another in a chess match. This wasn't the first time Kasparov had pitted his wits against computers. Or Deep Blue for that matter.
Students Attend Chess Tournament In Edmond - Ponca City News
Ponca City News
Ponca City News
The FLS Chess Club is open to all students in Ponca City, grades first through 12th and currently has 20 active members from eight different schools. The FLS Chess Club meets weekly on Tuesday evenings from 5:307:30 p.m., come and go, in the First ...
24 Hours in the Central West End: A Day in St. Louis' Most Cosmopolitan Neighborhood - Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times
When the world pictures St. Louis, they picture the Arch. The Cardinals. Toasted ravioli. People aren't likely to imagine the world's largest chess piece, top-notch shopping or clubs where you can salsa dance the night away, but we have that, too ...
An Art Lover's Guide to St. Louis - Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times
Less obvious St. Louis attractions also invite this conversation, from the fearlessly surrealistic City Museum to the eclectic World Chess Hall of Fame. Though we've recently lost some forward-thinking spaces — RIP, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts ...
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Fujitsu envisions AI that thinks outside the box - Nikkei Asian Review
Nikkei Asian Review
TOKYO -- Tech company Fujitsu aims to develop creative artificial intelligence that works in unfamiliar scenarios, tackling this project with a state-backed institution to try to give Japanese AI research a leg up on competition overseas. This type of ...
Reading at the library - Harrison Daily (subscription)
Harrison Daily (subscription)
Programs and activities at the Boone County Library for March. The BCL is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays and from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays and from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday.
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Around the region, March 3, 2017 - Republican & Herald
Republican & Herald
n Pottsville: Nativity BVM High School, 1 Lawtons Hill, will host the 2017 Schuylkill County Scholastic Chess Tournament set for 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 8. The entry fee is $10. The event is open to all county students — including those home-schooled.