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Scholastic Chess News Feed - Sat, 03/19/2016 - 03:01

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The Meyers Chess Team won its first team state title at the State Scholastic Chess Championships in Lancaster March 4-6. Meyers finished first in a field of 45 teams, with more than 700 participants at the event. The team was comprised of seniors Rai ...

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WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 19) - The Sun Herald

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 20:39

WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 19)
The Sun Herald
Game master Mike Redmond offers role-playing games, trading games such as Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, chess, video and computer games and board games. ..... Science Cafe: 6-7:30 p.m., Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, 703 E. Beach Drive, Ocean Springs.

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Checkmate: Electrical and Computer Engineering grad student wins the Alberta University chess title - Voiceonline.com

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 17:57

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Checkmate: Electrical and Computer Engineering grad student wins the Alberta University chess title
Voiceonline.com
For Banerjee, playing chess and conducting research are two interwoven activities that often feed off each other. His graduate study of wireless communication and networking echoes some of the underlying principles of the game. “Chess, if you think of ...

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Our Opinion: Blood clots – do you know the warning signs and prevention strategies? - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 17:50

Our Opinion: Blood clots – do you know the warning signs and prevention strategies?
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Diamonds to Meyers High School's chess team. The strategizing teens, guided by teacher Sam Elias, recently took part in the state scholastic chess championship. After three mentally grueling days of calculating, pushing pawns, avoiding blunders and ...

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Our Opinion: Blood clots – do you know the warning signs and prevention strategies? - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 17:50

Our Opinion: Blood clots – do you know the warning signs and prevention strategies?
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Diamonds to Meyers High School's chess team. The strategizing teens, guided by teacher Sam Elias, recently took part in the state scholastic chess championship. After three mentally grueling days of calculating, pushing pawns, avoiding blunders and ...

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DHS Chess Team takes home ninth consecutive championship - Easley Progress

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 15:54

Easley Progress

DHS Chess Team takes home ninth consecutive championship
Easley Progress
CENTRAL — Daniel High School's Chess Team won the S.C. Scholastic High School Chess Championship on Feb. 27, marking the ninth consecutive state chess title that Daniel has won competing against public high schools, magnet schools, private ...

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Artificial intelligence moving beyond board games - SFGate

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 15:47

SFGate

Artificial intelligence moving beyond board games
SFGate
Long a yardstick for advances in AI, the era of board game testing has come to an end, said Murray Campbell, an IBM research scientist who was part of the team that developed Deep Blue, the first computer program to beat a world chess champion. “Games ...

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AlphaGo and the Clash of Civilizations - Foreign Policy (blog)

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 15:35

Foreign Policy (blog)

AlphaGo and the Clash of Civilizations
Foreign Policy (blog)
But in early March, AlphaGo, a computer program developed by Google's artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind, defeated a South Korean Go grandmaster. The historic match attracted wide attention ... But the number of possibilities in the game of ...
Five Lessons from AlphaGo's Historic VictoryMIT Technology Review

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America's #2 Chess Player Just Messed Up Big-Time - Huffington Post

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 10:56

America's #2 Chess Player Just Messed Up Big-Time
Huffington Post
In chess, whether in the loftiest of professional or the lowliest of scholastic tournaments, the “touch-move” rule, as it's known, is holy writ. If you touch one of your pieces, you must move it. If you reach out and place your fingers around a pawn ...

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For 'Magic: The Gathering', Diversity Is The Marketing Strategy - Forbes

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 10:00

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For 'Magic: The Gathering', Diversity Is The Marketing Strategy
Forbes
The game is so intricate that it has a professional circuit called the Pro Tour, where competitors who train as intensely as chess players vie for cash prizes and live audiences. It's this complexity that gives it such a geeky reputation, but also what ...

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When Machines Think and Feel - Wall Street Journal

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 09:36

Wall Street Journal

When Machines Think and Feel
Wall Street Journal
Go resembles chess in the deep, complex problems it poses but is even harder to play and has resisted AI researchers longer. It requires mastery of strategy and tactics while you conceal your own plans and try to read your opponent's. Mastering Go fits ...

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Log InRegister - CBS Local

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 09:04

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CBS Local
(Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis). Warren responded that she identifies more with Princess Leia from Star Wars because she is “never even remotely tempted by the Dark Side.” and, she adds ...

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Log InRegister - CBS Local

In the News - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 09:04

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CBS Local
(Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis). Warren responded that she identifies more with Princess Leia from Star Wars because she is “never even remotely tempted by the Dark Side.” and, she adds ...

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The Syria Gambit – Geneva 'Peace Talks' and Russia's “Pullout”. “Regime Change” Remains Washington's Target… - Center for Research on Globalization

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 08:44

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The Syria Gambit – Geneva 'Peace Talks' and Russia's “Pullout”. “Regime Change” Remains Washington's Target…
Center for Research on Globalization
He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, CounterPunch, TeleSur, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate ...

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Artificial Intelligence Gets a Little Smarter - STRATFOR

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 04:15

STRATFOR

Artificial Intelligence Gets a Little Smarter
STRATFOR
One promising area of research is artificial neural networks, or computing designs modeled on the human brain, which enable programs and robots to identify patterns and react more fluidly in given tasks. The companies and countries that lead in ...
On losing to a computer: Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel.Tampabay.com
Don't Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At GoFiveThirtyEight
What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For EducationNPR
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What The Alphabet AlphaGo Victory Means for the AI Sector - Amigobulls

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 02:57

What The Alphabet AlphaGo Victory Means for the AI Sector
Amigobulls
Go is much more complex than chess and, until recently, no machine had beaten a human Go champion. In fact, experts predicted it would be at least another 10 ... The announcement was delayed until the publication of a research article titled "Mastering ...

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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - The Independent

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 02:41

The Independent

What your gaming name reveals about your personality
The Independent
In some respects, we can think of League of Legends and similar types of “multiplayer online battle arenas” as the 21st century's version of chess. A single game of LoL offers each ... So what does this research mean for gamers? While identifying ...

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Boardman Community Briefs - Youngstown Vindicator

Chess Research - Fri, 03/18/2016 - 00:20

Boardman Community Briefs
Youngstown Vindicator
Take steps to help the Junvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) progressively remove the impact of type 1 diabetes from people's lives. By joining a team or making .... Join the Boardman library for an afternoon game of chess. If you would like to ...

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