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Reporters' Notebook: Feb. 14, 2017 - The Buffalo News - Buffalo News
Buffalo News
Reporters' Notebook: Feb. 14, 2017 - The Buffalo News
Buffalo News
OLAF FUB SEZ: A favorite Valentine's Day lyric from singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, born on this date in 1947, “Long afloat on shipless oceans/ I did all my best ...
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Buffalo News
OLAF FUB SEZ: A favorite Valentine's Day lyric from singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, born on this date in 1947, “Long afloat on shipless oceans/ I did all my best ...
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Categories: Scholastic Chess
Coming Up - Columbia Daily Tribune
Coming Up
Columbia Daily Tribune
2017 Columbia Elementary and Middle School Scholastic Chess Tournament (Grades K through 8): 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Lange Middle School, 2201 E. Smiley Lane. Cost: $10. All players play four rounds of chess. Registration begins at 8 a.m., with ...
Google News Columbia Daily Tribune
2017 Columbia Elementary and Middle School Scholastic Chess Tournament (Grades K through 8): 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Lange Middle School, 2201 E. Smiley Lane. Cost: $10. All players play four rounds of chess. Registration begins at 8 a.m., with ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Chess tournament coming this month - Burlington Times News
Chess tournament coming this month
Burlington Times News
The scholastic entry fee is $20 by FridayFeb. 17, or $25 thereafter or on site. Register at www.carolinaschessinitiative.com, or mail entry information with fee to CCI, 105 N. Crabtree Knoll, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. Make checks payable to Carolinas ...
Burlington Times News
The scholastic entry fee is $20 by FridayFeb. 17, or $25 thereafter or on site. Register at www.carolinaschessinitiative.com, or mail entry information with fee to CCI, 105 N. Crabtree Knoll, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. Make checks payable to Carolinas ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Local chess club continues winning ways - Plainview Daily Herald
Plainview Daily Herald
Local chess club continues winning ways
Plainview Daily Herald
LUBBOCK -- Five students from the Plainview Homeschool Chess Club traveled to Estacado High School in Lubbock on Saturday to participate in the February Check with Tech Scholastic Tournament. Most of the local team moved into the rated K-5 division ...
Plainview Daily Herald
LUBBOCK -- Five students from the Plainview Homeschool Chess Club traveled to Estacado High School in Lubbock on Saturday to participate in the February Check with Tech Scholastic Tournament. Most of the local team moved into the rated K-5 division ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Winners of the 2017 World Press Photo Contest - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
Winners of the 2017 World Press Photo Contest
The Atlantic
Sports, Second Prize, Stories—Youth Chess Tournaments: A chess player expresses his emotions during a game of chess. Chess, for some, represents a world full of strong emotions, adrenaline and stress. This series focuses especially on the 'youth ...
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The Atlantic
Sports, Second Prize, Stories—Youth Chess Tournaments: A chess player expresses his emotions during a game of chess. Chess, for some, represents a world full of strong emotions, adrenaline and stress. This series focuses especially on the 'youth ...
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Categories: Chess Research
How a poker-playing AI is learning to negotiate better than any human - Quartz
Quartz
How a poker-playing AI is learning to negotiate better than any human
Quartz
Checkers and tic-tac-toe had already been conquered; chess's human champion had been dethroned, and IBM's Watson had taken no prisoners on Jeopardy. The “Computers may never outplay humans” section still had its stalwarts: ... Libratus has played ...
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Quartz
Checkers and tic-tac-toe had already been conquered; chess's human champion had been dethroned, and IBM's Watson had taken no prisoners on Jeopardy. The “Computers may never outplay humans” section still had its stalwarts: ... Libratus has played ...
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Categories: Chess Research
Invitații refuzate - Dilema veche
Dilema veche
Invitații refuzate
Dilema veche
Unii dintre cei ce au refuzat invitația federației au preferat să dea mai multă importanță seriei Grand Chess Tour, sponsorizată în mare parte de magnatul american Rex Sinquefield, care pune la bătaie premii mai mari. Alții boicotează federația (cum e ...
Dilema veche
Unii dintre cei ce au refuzat invitația federației au preferat să dea mai multă importanță seriei Grand Chess Tour, sponsorizată în mare parte de magnatul american Rex Sinquefield, care pune la bătaie premii mai mari. Alții boicotează federația (cum e ...
Categories: St. Louis AND Chess
Machine learning in cybersecurity: what is it and what do you need ... - CSO Australia
Machine learning in cybersecurity: what is it and what do you need ...
CSO Australia
Machine learning in cybersecurity will enormously bolster spending in big data, intelligence and analytics, says ABI Research.
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CSO Australia
Machine learning in cybersecurity will enormously bolster spending in big data, intelligence and analytics, says ABI Research.
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Categories: Chess Research
Turning the tide against cholera - Charleston Post Courier
Charleston Post Courier
Turning the tide against cholera
Charleston Post Courier
A fisherman sets up a net along the shore of the Poshur River in Sundarbans, considered to be the birthplace of cholera, in Bangladesh, Aug. 22, 2016. After 35 years of work, researchers here in cholera's birthplace have developed an effective vaccine ...
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Charleston Post Courier
A fisherman sets up a net along the shore of the Poshur River in Sundarbans, considered to be the birthplace of cholera, in Bangladesh, Aug. 22, 2016. After 35 years of work, researchers here in cholera's birthplace have developed an effective vaccine ...
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Categories: Chess Research
Ruszkowski tops in chess - nwitimes.com
nwitimes.com
Ruszkowski tops in chess
nwitimes.com
Ruszkowski is a fifth-grader at Renaissance Academy Charter School in LaPorte and has only been playing chess for about a year. He has been working with chess instructor Nick Groenewegen and playing at the Niles, Michigan Library Chess Club.
nwitimes.com
Ruszkowski is a fifth-grader at Renaissance Academy Charter School in LaPorte and has only been playing chess for about a year. He has been working with chess instructor Nick Groenewegen and playing at the Niles, Michigan Library Chess Club.
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Composer Spotlight Series: Ludwig van Beethoven - Webster Kirkwood Times
Composer Spotlight Series: Ludwig van Beethoven
Webster Kirkwood Times
Composer Spotlight Series: Ludwig van Beethoven will be presented Thursday, March 2, 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. Cost: $10; $5 tickets available for members, seniors and military. Reservations ...
Webster Kirkwood Times
Composer Spotlight Series: Ludwig van Beethoven will be presented Thursday, March 2, 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. Cost: $10; $5 tickets available for members, seniors and military. Reservations ...
Categories: World Chess Hall of Fame
Commentators | www.uschesschamps.com - USChessChamps.com
Commentators | www.uschesschamps.com USChessChamps.com
Categories: Saint Louis Chess Club
At the Galleries - Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
At the Galleries
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. 330g: Interaction of Tantra by ...
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. 330g: Interaction of Tantra by ...
A short history of AI schooling humans at their own games - PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour
A short history of AI schooling humans at their own games
PBS NewsHour
Twenty-one years ago today, IBM computer Deep Blue famously beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov at his own game. .... The researchers then “solved” the game of Checkers in 2007, such that Chinook can now win or draw against any opponent.
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PBS NewsHour
Twenty-one years ago today, IBM computer Deep Blue famously beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov at his own game. .... The researchers then “solved” the game of Checkers in 2007, such that Chinook can now win or draw against any opponent.
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Categories: Chess Research
How an AI took down four world-class poker pros - Engadget
Engadget
How an AI took down four world-class poker pros
Engadget
The four of them had spent the last 20 days playing 120,000 hands of heads-up, no-limit Texas Hold'em against an artificial intelligence called Libratus created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. At stake: a total pot of $200,000 and, on ...
Google News Engadget
The four of them had spent the last 20 days playing 120,000 hands of heads-up, no-limit Texas Hold'em against an artificial intelligence called Libratus created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. At stake: a total pot of $200,000 and, on ...
Categories: Chess Research
Increased Development of Highly-targeted Biologics Set to Change Composition of Asthma Therapeutics Market, Says ... - Satellite PR News (press release)
Increased Development of Highly-targeted Biologics Set to Change Composition of Asthma Therapeutics Market, Says ...
Satellite PR News (press release)
A new report from business intelligence provider GBI Research – Frontier Pharma: Asthma Therapeutics – states that the asthma therapeutics market is set to diversify over the coming years, as biologics and monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) become a bigger ...
Satellite PR News (press release)
A new report from business intelligence provider GBI Research – Frontier Pharma: Asthma Therapeutics – states that the asthma therapeutics market is set to diversify over the coming years, as biologics and monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) become a bigger ...
Categories: Saint Louis Chess Club
Increased Development of Highly-targeted Biologics Set to Change Composition of Asthma Therapeutics Market, Says ... - Satellite PR News (press release)
Increased Development of Highly-targeted Biologics Set to Change Composition of Asthma Therapeutics Market, Says ...
Satellite PR News (press release)
A new report from business intelligence provider GBI Research – Frontier Pharma: Asthma Therapeutics – states that the asthma therapeutics market is set to diversify over the coming years, as biologics and monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) become a bigger ...
Satellite PR News (press release)
A new report from business intelligence provider GBI Research – Frontier Pharma: Asthma Therapeutics – states that the asthma therapeutics market is set to diversify over the coming years, as biologics and monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) become a bigger ...
Categories: Saint Louis Chess Club
We Need a Plan for When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us - Futurism
We Need a Plan for When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us
Futurism
He believes that to ensure safe and beneficial AI, researchers and operators must learn to measure how well intelligent machines do what humans want, even as these machines surpass human intelligence. ... Consider a computer that is mastering chess.
Futurism
He believes that to ensure safe and beneficial AI, researchers and operators must learn to measure how well intelligent machines do what humans want, even as these machines surpass human intelligence. ... Consider a computer that is mastering chess.
Categories: Chess Research
Ruszkowski wins state chess championship - News Dispatch
News Dispatch
Ruszkowski wins state chess championship
News Dispatch
MICHIGAN CITY — The 2017 Scholastic Chess of Indiana State Championship has ended and Michigan City has a new state champion. William Ruszkowski competed in the sixth grade and under championship division typically for students rated 750 USCF ...
News Dispatch
MICHIGAN CITY — The 2017 Scholastic Chess of Indiana State Championship has ended and Michigan City has a new state champion. William Ruszkowski competed in the sixth grade and under championship division typically for students rated 750 USCF ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Women in Gaming: Is There a Gender Gap? - Techworm
Techworm
Women in Gaming: Is There a Gender Gap?
Techworm
Jennifer Shahade is a chess Grandmaster and two-time United States Champion who even rose to become the sole female member of the board of the World Chess Hall of Fame. Interestingly, Shahade also competes in another mind sport: poker. Together ...
Techworm
Jennifer Shahade is a chess Grandmaster and two-time United States Champion who even rose to become the sole female member of the board of the World Chess Hall of Fame. Interestingly, Shahade also competes in another mind sport: poker. Together ...
Categories: World Chess Hall of Fame
