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Why You May Want to Take a Break Every 90 Minutes - ATTN

Chess Research - Sat, 12/17/2016 - 22:20

ATTN

Why You May Want to Take a Break Every 90 Minutes
ATTN
Research suggests that the way to maximize productivity might actually be to take more breaks — at least one every 90 minutes. This is because, the theory goes, taking breaks in short enough intervals allows us to fully recover our physical and ...

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Updated: Chinese Seize U.S. Navy Unmanned Vehicle - USNI News

Chess Research - Fri, 12/16/2016 - 11:36

USNI News

Updated: Chinese Seize U.S. Navy Unmanned Vehicle
USNI News
There are the cool-headed chess players of foreign policy, and then there are loud peckerwoods. Don't be a peckerwood. lib4 • 23 hours ... The one-page above 'LBS Glider System' is not describing an 'unclassified research drone'. Look at its ...

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CHESS Facility Helps Scale Up Solar Cells - I-Connect007

Chess Research - Fri, 12/16/2016 - 09:18

I-Connect007

CHESS Facility Helps Scale Up Solar Cells
I-Connect007
In a series of experiments with several different formulations, CHESS researchers placed newly coated cells in the path of a beam of high-energy X-rays. X-rays passing through a grid of atoms will emerge in a pattern from which the structure of the ...

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The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2016 - Gizmodo

Chess Research - Fri, 12/16/2016 - 08:33

The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2016
Gizmodo
In a tournament that rivaled the historical importance of Deep Blue vs chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1996 and Deep Blue vs the best Jeopardy champs in 2011, Google's AlphaGo won four of the five games it played against Go world champion Lee Sedol ...

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The Americans love Wesley So - Chessbase News

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Fri, 12/16/2016 - 02:00
The Americans love Wesley So  Chessbase News

Wesley So might be the newest member of the U.S. Chess team, and many may consider him to be a “transfer”, but he is slowly growing in popularity.

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CHESS facility helps scale up solar cells - Cornell Chronicle

Chess Research - Thu, 12/15/2016 - 15:20

Cornell Chronicle

CHESS facility helps scale up solar cells
Cornell Chronicle
In a series of experiments with several different formulations, CHESS researchers placed newly coated cells in the path of a beam of high-energy X-rays. X-rays passing through a grid of atoms will emerge in a pattern from which the structure of the ...

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CHESS facility helps scale up solar cells - Cornell Chronicle

Chess Research - Thu, 12/15/2016 - 15:20

Cornell Chronicle

CHESS facility helps scale up solar cells
Cornell Chronicle
In a series of experiments with several different formulations, CHESS researchers placed newly coated cells in the path of a beam of high-energy X-rays. X-rays passing through a grid of atoms will emerge in a pattern from which the structure of the ...

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Global chess match between Russia and the president-elect - Mic

Chess Research - Thu, 12/15/2016 - 10:04

Mic

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Global chess match between Russia and the president-elect
Mic
"Despite opposition research, despite people making up stuff about you, despite people telling the truth about you, the question is really, 'If you don't run and you have the skills, the passion and the ability, what happens to the people that you ...

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Money, mastodons, motorcycles and miniatures: 13 super-specific St. Louis museums - STLtoday.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 12/15/2016 - 02:00
Money, mastodons, motorcycles and miniatures: 13 super-specific St. Louis museums  STLtoday.com

Everybody's got their thing, and sometimes, they have a lot of those things. Telephones. Horseshoes. Torture devices. Teeny-weeny telephones, horseshoes ...

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Achievers - NewsOK.com

Chess Research - Thu, 12/15/2016 - 00:10

NewsOK.com

Achievers
NewsOK.com
Many of Oklahoma's top adult and collegiate chess players competed in the tournament Nov. 19 at Regency Park Baptist Church in Moore. But in each of the event's four divisions, first place went to a player younger than 18. Zhong is ranked 13th in the ...

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On Chess: At times, there is a need for speed - St. Louis Public Radio

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 22:01

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: At times, there is a need for speed
St. Louis Public Radio
In 1993, was awarded the Samford Chess Fellowship. Finegold has secured several GM norms across the U.S. and is a familiar face around the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and a popular name within the Club's Resident Grandmaster ...

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On Chess: At times, there is a need for speed - St. Louis Public Radio

In the News - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 22:01

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: At times, there is a need for speed
St. Louis Public Radio
... was awarded the Samford Chess Fellowship. Finegold has secured several GM norms across the U.S. and is a familiar face around the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and a popular name within the Club's Resident Grandmaster rotation.

MES second in chess tourney; MMS, LAMP finish third - Murray Ledger and Times

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 17:47

Murray Ledger and Times

MES second in chess tourney; MMS, LAMP finish third
Murray Ledger and Times
MARION – Murray Elementary School finished just a half-point behind K-3 division champion Crittenden County Elementary Saturday in the Blue Knights Scholastic Chess Tournament, hosted by Crittenden County Middle School. MES finished with 12 points ...

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Jordan's love of chess spills over to school cup and boost for charity ... - The Nelson Mail

Chess Research - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 15:29

The Nelson Mail

Jordan's love of chess spills over to school cup and boost for charity ...
The Nelson Mail
Clifton Terrace School pupil Jordan Kelso, 10, donates the money he raised for Child Cancer to Nelson Regional Child Cancer Foundation ambassador Chris ...

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Why we are still light years away from full artificial intelligence - TechCrunch

Chess Research - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 14:00

TechCrunch

Why we are still light years away from full artificial intelligence
TechCrunch
It's not hard to have that impression with the likes of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, leading university departments and research centers around the world and more being highly concerned with the potential risks brought about by AI and taking action now ...

Google News
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9 unusual facts about Peter Thiel you probably didn't know - YourStory.com

Chess Research - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 10:25

YourStory.com

9 unusual facts about Peter Thiel you probably didn't know
YourStory.com
One of the highest rated under-21 players, he is said to have applied chess concepts to become a billionaire. His favourite question is, “What do you believe that almost no one agrees with you on?” He supports anti-aging research. Through Breakout Lab ...

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Mentoring's Promise and Limits - The Atlantic

Chess Research - Wed, 12/14/2016 - 09:30

The Atlantic

Mentoring's Promise and Limits
The Atlantic
Mentoring, research shows, can help people academically, emotionally, and socially; it can steer them clear of trouble and toward college, career, and a better life. But the true impact of mentoring may be difficult to ascertain in the long-term ...

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