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A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
... the largest chess piece in the world (a fourteen-foot-and-seven-inch-tall queen), sitting outside the World Chess Hall of Fame, which moved to St. Louis in 2011, three years after the opening of the six-thousand-square-foot Chess Club and ...
`Billions' Star Damian Lewis Talks Short-Selling at Emmy Panel - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
They all claimed that their analysis, their research, was more thorough than anyone else and once they had all the dots lined up, then they'd make the bet.” “Billions,” which wrapped up its ... Bobby likes moving around the pawns on his particular ...
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Who are Generation 2016 in Scotland? - BBC News
BBC News
I'm a floating voter and on the run up to elections I try to research the different parties and their policies as much as possible. Recently ..... I'm a frequent chess player, a passionate chemist, a steadfast libertarian thinker and an unwavering ...
The Threats That Artificial Intelligence Researchers Actually Worry About - Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine
Yes, IBM Deep Blue's win over chess master Garry Kasparov in 1997 and IBM Watson's 2011 Jeopardy! victory over the two highest-earning champions had a similar effect, but this time the win comes after a year full of warnings about impending changes to ...
Meet Aum Amin, London's child genius with an IQ higher than Einstein - Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Evening Standard
If he is bored he does research on the internet and that's where he found out what Mensa was. He took the IQ society's test this month and it .... As I leave, he pipes up that he also plays chess and is writing a novel. “It's about a futurist race ...
So finishes 2nd overall in US Chess Championship - The Manila Times
The Manila Times
Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So finished second overall in the prestigious 2016 US Chess Championship held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Missouri, US. So scored 7.5 points on four wins and seven draws – just a full point ...
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So finishes 2nd overall in US Chess Championship - The Manila Times
The Manila Times
Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So finished second overall in the prestigious 2016 US Chess Championship held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis in Missouri, US. So scored 7.5 points on four wins and seven draws – just a full point ...
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125 years of saving places - Gloucester Daily Times
Gloucester Daily Times
Gloucester Daily Times
“There will be two giant chess and checker sets, put on in giant-, Alice in Wonderland-style,” Marshall says. “There will be croquet at the casino, and people can be on the allee, hanging out. There will be a treasure hunt in the house, and birthday ...
How to Pick Your Next Health App - U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
The current iPhone has 10 times the processing power of the chess-playing, Garry Kasparov-beating Deep Blue supercomputer from the 1990s. Beyond the powerful ... Similarly, federally funded research groups release their own apps. The National Cancer ...
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Thursday Briefing: Community Cats Calling, Inspired Mic, Flagler Beach Sign Forest, Obama's Lost Narrative - FlaglerLive.com
FlaglerLive.com
April 30: The Jacksonville Chess Club hosts the Spring Scholastic Series chess tournament from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at San Jose Church of Christ, 6233 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville. time controls set at 30 minutes for each player with a 5 sec delay (4SS G/30 ...
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Kasparov To Face Caruana, Nakamura, So In Ultimate Blitz Challenge - Chess.com
On Chess: Tension high at U.S. Championship, but ranking wins out - St. Louis Public Radio
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.
A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest - The New Yorker
Charles Bethea on the American chess player Fabiano Caruana, who recently bought a house in St. Louis, the newest U.S. epicenter of chess.
How Chess Players' Brains Are Different From Everybody Else's - Mic
Science suggests chess players may have an advantage over everyone else.
The Wicked Boy is finally redeemed - Spectator.co.uk
Spectator.co.uk
Spectator.co.uk
With her meticulous research, spry prose and eye for the telling detail, no other writer could have made the Coombes case so fascinating and so vivid. She is one of those authors with such a light touch that you barely notice the social, psychiatric ...