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Op-Ed: A citizen's guide to the economy (and why Pravin Gordhan will prevail) - Daily Maverick

Chess Research - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 15:38

Daily Maverick

Op-Ed: A citizen's guide to the economy (and why Pravin Gordhan will prevail)
Daily Maverick
Former world chess champion, turned activist, Gary Kasparov makes the point that governments that traditionally rely on oil revenues for their funding don't have an incentive to be accountable to their citizens or develop their potential. China, which ...

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The Chess Game of Chemotherapy Resistance - Synapse

Chess Research - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 13:06

The Chess Game of Chemotherapy Resistance
Synapse
New research from the UCSF lab of Dr. Steven Altschuler and Dr. Lani Wu, published on February 19th in Nature Communications, has begun to shed light on the diverse number of mechanisms that a single cancer cell can use to acquire drug resistance.

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WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 2) - The Sun Herald

Chess Research - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 10:28

WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 2)
The Sun Herald
Proceeds benefit Mississippi research and other services. Presented by National MS ... Game master Mike Redmond offer role-playing games, trading games such as Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, chess, video and computer games and board games. Refreshments.

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Woodall chess player places sixth in state tournament - Tahlequah Daily Press

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 09:42

Tahlequah Daily Press

Woodall chess player places sixth in state tournament
Tahlequah Daily Press
OSCO was formed in early 2003 to work with the Oklahoma Chess Association and US Chess Federation to further its goal to promote and improve scholastic chess opportunities. OSCO's organizational structure is based on a statewide group of people ...

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New York Narratives: An Upper West Sider Recalls a Life Influenced By Music - Curbed NY

Chess Research - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 07:54

New York Narratives: An Upper West Sider Recalls a Life Influenced By Music
Curbed NY
And they did twirly steps down the hall, and they sat together at lunch and played chess in the air. It was just not my crowd. And when he was in college, and I was still in high school, ... And then one time, he told me that he had this Sloan grant ...

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DAVID R. SANDS: Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, to defend his title in New York City match - Washington Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 04:52

Washington Times

DAVID R. SANDS: Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, to defend his title in New York City match
Washington Times
The World Chess Hall of Fame, based in St. Louis, just announced its three inductees for 2016. Two of them — 19th-century English great Howard Staunton and Soviet grandmaster and author David Bronstein — need no introduction for serious chess players.

Plymouth Public Library news - Wicked Local Plymouth

Chess Research - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 04:15

Plymouth Public Library news
Wicked Local Plymouth
Check plymouthpubliclibrary.org for a calendar of events. The Afterschool Club for teensThe Afterschool Club, for teen students needing study time or just wanting to hang out and play a game of chess, meets one Tuesday per month. .... With content from ...

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DAVID R. SANDS: Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, to defend his title in New York City match - Washington Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/02/2016 - 04:03

DAVID R. SANDS: Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, to defend his title in New York City match
Washington Times
The World Chess Hall of Fame, based in St. Louis, just announced its three inductees for 2016. Two of them — 19th-century English great Howard Staunton and Soviet grandmaster and author David Bronstein — need no introduction for serious chess players.

Windsor in Pictures: March 1, 2016 - Windsor Star

Chess Research - Tue, 03/01/2016 - 21:41

Windsor Star

Windsor in Pictures: March 1, 2016
Windsor Star
The annual Windsor Chess Challenge tournament began Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at the Ciociaro Club in Windsor, ON. Over 1,500 local students are competing in the two day event. Sean Amyot, from Sacred Heart School contemplates a move during the ...

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Talk of chaos replaced by a game of chess - Irish Independent

Chess Research - Tue, 03/01/2016 - 20:31

Talk of chaos replaced by a game of chess
Irish Independent
Instead, we've got a slow game of chess where every move is anticipated with a sense of inevitability. Taoiseach Enda Kenny will .... Recent research has revealed some very disturbing concerns regarding the position of principals and... Guidance ...

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GUEST ROOM | Peaked in High School - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun

Chess Research - Tue, 03/01/2016 - 20:03

GUEST ROOM | Peaked in High School
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
Securing highly sought-after internships at venerated professional firms, policy centers and research labs, entails, in part, repeated rounds of interrogation. Interviewing is inherently one-sided, but it also informs us about ourselves. Curating an ...

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Why Strong Artificial Inteligences Need Protection From Us - Not Us From Them - Science 2.0

Chess Research - Tue, 03/01/2016 - 19:58

Why Strong Artificial Inteligences Need Protection From Us - Not Us From Them
Science 2.0
But it wasn't just newbies like me, on my gap year before university, learning programming and encountering a computer for my first time, in the Culham Research labs computational physics group for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (with the ...

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Ruben Diaz, Jr.: An Up-and-Coming Bronx Pol Who Just Might Be NYC's next 'Education Mayor' - The Seventy Four

Chess Research - Tue, 03/01/2016 - 15:36

The Seventy Four

Ruben Diaz, Jr.: An Up-and-Coming Bronx Pol Who Just Might Be NYC's next 'Education Mayor'
The Seventy Four
When his career as Bronx Borough President is all said and done, Ruben Diaz, Jr., envisions himself, perhaps, standing at the front of a classroom, nurturing young minds. On the other hand, the 42-year-old rising star in New York political circles ...

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Will cheap, safe 3D printers change the world? Ask a kid. - Houston Chronicle

Chess Research - Tue, 03/01/2016 - 12:01

Houston Chronicle

Will cheap, safe 3D printers change the world? Ask a kid.
Houston Chronicle
FOR MORE than a year, my research group at the University of Texas at Austin has been running the Innovation Station, a 3D printing vending machine that we designed and built to provide open access to 3D printing on the university campus. After ...

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