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New Exhibit at World Chess Hall of Fame Features Female Trailblazers - STLtoday.com
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Soon after the opening of Ladies' Knight, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) began beginner chess classes for women from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings taught by International Master Irene Sukander and Woman ...
New Exhibit at World Chess Hall of Fame Features Female Trailblazers - STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
As part of Her Turn, the CCSCSL will also host an installation of photographs, score sheets and other artifacts related to the 2009-2015 U.S. Women's Chess Championships, curated by research assistant Catherine Niehaus. Her Turn: Revolutionary Women ...
New Exhibit at World Chess Hall of Fame Features Female Trailblazers - STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
Soon after the opening of Ladies' Knight, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) began beginner chess classes for women from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings taught by International Master Irene Sukander and Woman ...
New Exhibit at World Chess Hall of Fame Features Female Trailblazers - STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
Soon after the opening of Ladies' Knight, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) began beginner chess classes for women from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings taught by International Master Irene Sukander and Woman ...
North Shore Community Calendar - The Salem News
The Salem News
Marblehead: Children's Chess Club, 6 to 8 p.m., Abbot Public Library, 235 Pleasant St. Learn chess with Mikhail Perelsteyn. Beginners lessons ... Marblehead: Free Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Boston Scholastic, 165 Pleasant St. For all ages. Free and open ...
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8 Ways Billionaires and Elite Athletes Perform at the Highest Level - Observer
Observer
Observer
While analyzing the computer's strategy, players have been shocked and amused by the computer's use of certain “ugly” moves — which no trained chess player would ever do — that utterly clash with conventional wisdom. Rather than finesse and ...
A computer just beat a human one of the most complex games out there - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
But go, a strategy game popular in such places as China, South Korea and Japan, is vastly more complicated than chess. “Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research,” said artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, ...
Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than ExpectedMIT Technology Review
In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humansArkansas Online
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos
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Sinquefields give Mizzou New Music Initiative $2 million gift - STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
STLtoday.com
The Sinquefields may be better known for their giving to chess education and political causes, but they've been supporting music composition at Mizzou for more than a decade, through several different programs. Their latest gift brings the total for ...
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Justin Peck and the National's Bryce Dessner create a Most Incredible ballet - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
Interestingly, the young choreographer didn't set out to make a narrative work, but as he began to discuss possibilities with his collaborators – the composer Bryce Dessner (also guitarist with the National) and visual artist Marcel Dzama – the idea ...
1 Sharing the River: Dealing with Boat Traffic on a Mississippi Source-to-Sea - CANOE & KAYAK
CANOE & KAYAK
CANOE & KAYAK
During our planning research we'd come across other expeditions that had taken radios and reported good yields. Some folks made casual suggestions to take a radio, but said it was possible without one. On the contrary, we found that our radio became ...
Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than Expected - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Go is far more challenging for computers than, say, chess for two reasons: the number of potential moves each turn is far higher, and there is no simple way to measure material advantage. A player must therefore learn to recognize abstract patterns in ...
In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humansArkansas Online
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos
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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
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Goldman Sachs Wavefront Economic Analysis Hunts For Economic Shocks - ValueWalk
ValueWalk
ValueWalk
Goldman Sachs economics researchers have engaged in an ambitious project to apply “Wavefront” macro economic analysis onto fundamental economic performance drivers and then reveal trading and investing ideas for what is an oddly shaped market ...
Weekly planner for area sporting events, entertainment and more - The News Herald
The News Herald
Instructor Jackie Papke presents “My Genealogy Experience” about genealogy research and the interesting and unexpected facts she learned about her ancestors. Details: 522-2100 or NWRLS.com. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE READ IN: 3:30-5 p.m. and 6:30-7:30 ...
Did you know you can play chess in Facebook Messenger? - Android Authority (blog)
Android Authority (blog)
Android Authority (blog)
Did you know that there is a chess game built into Facebook Messenger that you can use to play against your friends? I sure didn't, but it seems that anyone can have a go by typing “@fbchess play” (without the quotations) into a message to initiate a ...
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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Education Week (subscription)
Education Week (subscription)
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
The Emergence of Deep and Machine Learning - Desktop Engineering
Desktop Engineering
Imagine a host of products that can incorporate such applications as superb and accurate language translation from multiple platforms, forecast weather with pinpoint accuracy and learn chess within 72 hours — and play at the Master level. Such ...
Iran nuclear agreement satisfactory not ideal: Salehi - Press TV
Press TV
Press TV
In other words, to remove the inefficient centrifuges the IR1 and to replace them with efficient centrifuges or the advanced centrifuges such as IR8 about Arak, the Arak Research Reactor, as I in my first interview with you if you remember if you ...
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Notebook: Arbanas' artisty is shooting the 3-ball for YSU - Sharonherald
Sharonherald
Sharonherald
According to women's basketball sports information director John Vogel's research, the Penguins have produced 6 wins when trailing by as many as 8 points in a game, 3 times from 15-point deficits. In the season-opener against Canisius Youngstown yanked ...
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Lord Carloway's vision for redesigning the Scottish courtroom - Law Society of Scotland (press release) (blog)
Law Society of Scotland (press release) (blog)
These may occasionally be expressions of my own personal utopia, but generally they are conclusions based upon considered, albeit inevitably incomplete, research by others. Many of the central changes require primary legislation. Their introduction ...