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Chess players heading to nationals in Atlanta - Virgin Islands Daily News

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 02:03

Chess players heading to nationals in Atlanta
Virgin Islands Daily News
Chess players heading to nationals in Atlanta. By MATT SCHOCH Daily News Staff; 50 sec ago; 0. ST. THOMAS — Jermaine Jones of E. Benjamin Oliver Elementary School can usually beat his dad at chess. Now, Howard Jones said his fourth-grader don is ...

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Chess instruction in schools: A quantitative review - Chessbase News

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 02:00
Chess instruction in schools: A quantitative review  Chessbase News

Does chess in school make children smarter? In this review of the available evidence, Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet show that chess instruction in schools ...

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How Google DeepMind Plans to Solve Intelligence - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 23:06

MIT Technology Review

How Google DeepMind Plans to Solve Intelligence
MIT Technology Review
A chess prodigy who completed high school early to establish a successful career in the video-game industry, he later got a PhD in neuroscience and published high-profile research on memory and imagination. Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2011 to ...

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Community reeling after 'brilliant' boy's death - dailytelegraph.com.au

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 22:56

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Community reeling after 'brilliant' boy's death
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Victor was a talented musician and his name was synonymous with chess at Northbridge,” Mrs Donlan said. He was the youngest-ever winner of our school chess competition as a ... Last Thursday, Northbridge Public School held a mufti day in Victor's ...

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On Chess: Heartbreak of the year at the Candidates Tournament - St. Louis Public Radio

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 22:46

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: Heartbreak of the year at the Candidates Tournament
St. Louis Public Radio
Caruana will be back in St. Louis in a few weeks playing in his first U.S. Championship beginning April 13 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. It will be the strongest U.S. Championship in the history of U.S. chess. Grandmaster ...

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On Chess: Heartbreak of the year at the Candidates Tournament - St. Louis Public Radio

In the News - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 22:46

St. Louis Public Radio

On Chess: Heartbreak of the year at the Candidates Tournament
St. Louis Public Radio
Caruana will be back in St. Louis in a few weeks playing in his first U.S. Championship beginning April 13 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. It will be the strongest U.S. Championship in the history of U.S. chess. Grandmaster ...

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Get Out calendar for Thursday, April 7, 2016 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 18:11

Get Out calendar for Thursday, April 7, 2016
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
This event will feature a presentation by Dr. David Mattson, Research Wildlife Biologist (retired) U.S. Geological Survey, preceded by the short film by Jim Laybourn, “Always Endangered.” ... Chess Club, Bozeman Public Library, 626 E. Main St., 6 p.m ...

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More from Patrick Jobes on Bozeman's oldtime growth - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 17:29

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)

More from Patrick Jobes on Bozeman's oldtime growth
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)
They seem to have a dreamscape geographic image which they think can be objectively plated out like chess or Monopoly. They only want a few affordable acres, which they intend to develop only a little bit. They want urban amenities and a flexible ...

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President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT - MIT News

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 16:22

MIT News

President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT
MIT News
Sargsyan was also shown demonstrations of projects from multiple Media Lab research groups, including the Tangible Media group, directed by Hiroshi Ishii; the Lifelong Kindergarten group, directed by Mitchel Resnick; and the Responsive Environments ...

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First Friday: It's All Fun and Games - Riverfront Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 13:00

Riverfront Times

First Friday: It's All Fun and Games
Riverfront Times
You can try your hand at the World Chess Hall of Fame's giant chess set, enter a trivia contest or thrill to classic episodes of Nickelodeon's Double Dare, Nick Arcade and Legends of the Hidden Temple. At 10 p.m. Edgar Wright's cult classic film Scott ...

Could AlphaGo Bluff Its Way through Poker? - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 12:36

MIT Technology Review

Could AlphaGo Bluff Its Way through Poker?
MIT Technology Review
Unlike board games such as Go or chess, poker is a game of “imperfect information,” and for this reason it has proved even more resistant to computerization than Go. Gameplay in poker involves devising a ... Together with Johannes Heinrich, a research ...
Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next?The Guardian

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Cliff Curtis' long shot as “The Dark Horse” pays off - San Francisco Chronicle

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 12:36

San Francisco Chronicle

Cliff Curtis' long shot as “The Dark Horse” pays off
San Francisco Chronicle
“Once I started to play chess and to really research him and research about the condition, the bipolar disorder, and the medication he had to take, and then I met his family, his wife and his son, once I got into the world of it, it evolved. It was an ...
'Dark Horse' a loving portrait of hero – Webber, Hurd-Wood to star in Joe Dante's chiller 'Labirintus'Arab Times Kuwait English Daily

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Cuba: Détente or Monroe Doctrine Imperial Plot? Washington's Intent: “Bay of Pigs Invasion with a Smile” - Center for Research on Globalization

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 11:08

Center for Research on Globalization

Cuba: Détente or Monroe Doctrine Imperial Plot? Washington's Intent: “Bay of Pigs Invasion with a Smile”
Center for Research on Globalization
Cuba has produced numerous computer games, including a popular program that teaches how to play chess; it has produced cell-phone platforms as well as a popular operating system; and of course, it has produced software for the health sector, including ...

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Chantilly Brief: Success at State Chess Tourney - Virginia Connection Newspapers

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 09:14

Chantilly Brief: Success at State Chess Tourney
Virginia Connection Newspapers
Students from four Fairfax County public schools won team championships in all four K-12 divisions at the Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships held recently in Ashburn. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) student Siddhant Nair also won the ...

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Chantilly Brief: Success at State Chess Tourney - Centre View

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 09:13

Chantilly Brief: Success at State Chess Tourney
Centre View
#Students from four Fairfax County public schools won team championships in all four K-12 divisions at the Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships held recently in Ashburn. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) student Siddhant Nair also won the ...

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Artificial intelligence impacts legal profession - The Tennessean

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 08:05

The Tennessean

Artificial intelligence impacts legal profession
The Tennessean
Perhaps you read where a Google software program just beat a world master champion at Go, a game of intelligence, strategy and intuition far more complex than chess. But the future of these developments isn't computers as TV celebrities. Instead, the ...

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THINGS TO DO: March 31-April 6 - Marco Island Sun Times

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 07:52

Marco Island Sun Times

THINGS TO DO: March 31-April 6
Marco Island Sun Times
Chess on Marco Island meets Mondays, 9 a.m.-noon, at Marco Lutheran Church, 525 N. Collier Blvd. Chess in Naples meets Saturdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., in clubhouse at Moorings Park, off Goodlette-Frank Road. ... while continuing to lecture and do freelance ...

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Nick Blackwell Injury: Is It Time To Ban Head Blows in Boxing? - Newsweek

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 06:28

Newsweek

Nick Blackwell Injury: Is It Time To Ban Head Blows in Boxing?
Newsweek
In the past, before concerted research was conducted into the effects of head blows on the brain, many boxing gyms had stumbling, mumbling characters doing menial tasks in the only world they knew. Sometimes cruelly mocked, they were the “punch-drunk” ...

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