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Gateway To The West Is The Gateway To Chess - The Good News Review
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The Good News Review
The Gateway to the West didn't become a chess haven overnight. The city's unique chess culture was set in to motion by a single dynamic individual, Rex Sinquefield, financial entrepreneur and St. Louis native. Always with an interest in chess growing ...
The next major advance in medicine will be the use of AI - ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
Over the last few decades, medical research has shifted from treating transient illnesses to curing long-term disease. This work, which built on ... Watson has been in the news because of its recent performance at Jeopardy and chess. It's well versed ...
Salesforce reveals secret recipe for digital transformation - Business Cloud News
Business Cloud News
Business Cloud News
The inventor, Ibn Khallikan, approached the Indian king with the game and his reward was to be rice, more specifically one grain for the first square on the chess board, two for the second, four for the third, and doubling there on until the end of the ...
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NaaSeHaanTak: Kunal Shah on his journey at FreeCharge and why every idea need not be a 'copy-paste' - YourStory.com
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YourStory.com
Kunal Shah believes that entrepreneurs should also see themselves as players in a game of chess, otherwise they will end up as pawns fighting against one another. He says, “Only when you distance yourself from the game, are you able to figure your ...
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Chess champions collect hardware - Virgin Islands Daily News
Virgin Islands Daily News
Virgin Islands Daily News
Chess champions from Saturday's St. Thomas/St. John Youth Scholastic Chess Tournament pose with their trophies after the Lockhart Elementary School event. They are: back row, left to right, Jeanne Varay, Eudora Kean, first place, 13 and above; ...
World Chess Hall of Fame Presents: Tom Hackney Exhibit - Photos
Tom Hackney debuts new exhibit of paintings at the World Chess Hall of Fame - Blogger
California Senate approves sweeping gun-control measures - CBS 8 San Diego
CBS 8 San Diego
CBS 8 San Diego
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats in the California Senate approved a wide-ranging series of gun control bills Thursday, reviving an effort to significantly tighten California's already strict gun laws in the wake of last year's terrorist attack in ...
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California Senate OKs sweeping gun-control measures - The Detroit News
The Detroit News
The Detroit News
They include regulations for homemade firearms, background checks for ammunition purchases, a mandate to report lost or stolen guns, a ban on loaning firearms to friends and funding for a gun-violence research center. The debate in the Senate ... “It ...
California Senate Approves Sweeping Gun-Control MeasuresABC News
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California Senate approves sweeping gun-control measures - Fox News
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Fox News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Democrats in the California Senate approved a wide-ranging series of gun control bills Thursday, reviving an effort to significantly tighten California's already strict gun laws in the wake of last year's terrorist attack in San ...
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'Cognitive computing' shapes IBM's future - The Providence Journal
The Providence Journal
The Providence Journal
There aren't any signs that suggest if you drive up the narrow road that wraps around the hill you'll find a research facility at the top. No signs that the research center is home ... Winning "Jeopardy" isn't like winning at chess. An earlier IBM ...
North Shore Community Calendar - The Salem News
The Salem News
Volenteer teams walk along outdoor track all night in support of cancer research. carly.blau@gmail.com. DANVERS: “We .... MARBLEHEAD: Children's Chess Club Tournament, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Abbot Public Library, 235 Pleasant St. Open to all children.
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Living in a changing world - Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
IBM's Watson, a computer with multiple artificial intelligence applications, has managed not just to beat a human in chess, but also win Jeopardy!, “a game that requires not only encyclopedic recall, but also the ability to untangle convoluted and ...
Theater, Ballet, and Queer Cabaret: Vogue's Hamish Bowles Takes Manhattan - Vogue.com
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Vogue.com
At New York City Ballet, I'd seen Justin Peck's antic The Most Incredible Thing, with quirky designs by artist Marcel Dzama that evoked the experimentations of the Ballets Russes designers in the 1920s, and at the company's gala I enjoyed the premieres ...
California Senate Approves Sweeping Gun-Control Measures - ABC News
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They include regulations for homemade firearms, background checks for ammunition purchases, a mandate to report lost or stolen guns, a ban on loaning firearms to friends and funding for a gun-violence research center. The debate in ... his initiative ...
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California Senate approves sweeping gun-control measures - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
They include regulations for homemade firearms, background checks for ammunition purchases, a mandate to report lost or stolen guns, a ban on loaning firearms to friends and funding for a gun-violence research center. The debate in the ... “It is ...
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Orchard Park student competes in National Elementary Chess Championship - Current in Carmel
Current in Carmel
Current in Carmel
He competed in the Michigan Scholastic Club Championship for chess and placed second prior to heading to nationals. “This win gave me the confidence to go to the national competition,” Mundrigi said. The competition for students in kindergarten through ...
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How Maurice Ashley, the first black chess grandmaster, uses the game to change inner-city kids' lives - For The Win
For The Win
For The Win
Ashley is telling the story more than three decades later as he sits in the plush lobby of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. While some of the details have faded, he's sure about one thing: He didn't leave his game when the shootout began.
On Chess: GM? IM? What do the titles mean? How are they earned?St. Louis Public Radio
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How Maurice Ashley, the first black chess grandmaster, uses the game to change inner-city kids' lives - For The Win
For The Win
For The Win
After Mike Brown was murdered in Ferguson in 2014, Ashley teamed up with the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis to start a program in schools there. Ashley firmly believes that even if kids don't rise to the same prominence within elite ...
On Chess: GM? IM? What do the titles mean? How are they earned?St. Louis Public Radio
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