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Chess Champion Passes on his Knowledge - KXNet.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Sat, 05/16/2015 - 15:41

KXNet.com

Chess Champion Passes on his Knowledge
KXNet.com
"I've been playing scholastic chess for 25 years. This little eight year old kid wanted to play a game of chess. Well I might be able to teach him something. It didn't take to many questions for me to realize I wasn't gonna teach him anything. At 8 ...

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Aubrey de Grey: He wants to live for ever — with no underpants - The Sunday Times

Chess Research - Sat, 05/16/2015 - 12:10

Aubrey de Grey: He wants to live for ever — with no underpants
The Sunday Times
He is the Cambridge biologist and gerontologist who believes he can “cure” ageing — a cause to which he has devoted his life through his Sens (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) research institute in California. If you are not familiar ...

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Rahm Emanuel faces daunting second-term challenges - Chicago Tribune

Chess Research - Sat, 05/16/2015 - 05:21

Chicago Tribune

Rahm Emanuel faces daunting second-term challenges
Chicago Tribune
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will raise his right hand to take the oath of office for a second term Monday morning at the historic Chicago Theatre, but after the ceremony is over and he walks off the stage, a stack of daunting challenges will be waiting. His ...

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RHS Chelsea garden inspired by the Magna Carta - Watford Observer

Chess Research - Sat, 05/16/2015 - 04:12

Watford Observer

RHS Chelsea garden inspired by the Magna Carta
Watford Observer
Patricia and Janet did lots of research and drew on the knowledge of the history of garden design that they'd acquired on the course at Capel Manor College in Enfield where they met to create a formal layout that is evocative of gardens of the Medieval ...

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The top 5 Reid moments from this season of 'Criminal Minds' - Entertainment Weekly

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 19:21

Entertainment Weekly

The top 5 Reid moments from this season of 'Criminal Minds'
Entertainment Weekly
Starting with discovering his body in his cabin and ending with one last chess game, Reid's grief processing was honest, genuine, and perfectly acted. With a season full of ups, downs, and everything in between, Reid has been the one constant. He is ...

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MADURAI TODAY FOR 16 MAY SATURDAY - The Hindu

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 19:17

MADURAI TODAY FOR 16 MAY SATURDAY
The Hindu
Yoga Research Centre: Yoga training by S. Yoganand, Department of Philosophy, The Madura College, 6.30 a.m.. GENERAL. OCPM Girls Higher ... CEOA Schools: Chess tourney, Officers' Town, Meenambalpuram, 10 a.m.. Muthu Hospitals: Free bone and ...

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Film and exhibit pursue surreal pairing of chess and avant-garde art - St. Louis Public Radio

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 19:11

St. Louis Public Radio

Film and exhibit pursue surreal pairing of chess and avant-garde art
St. Louis Public Radio
Famed iconoclast and art world provocateur Marcel Duchamp is tortured and forced to recite chess moves. Rock and roll icon Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth runs down dimly lit hallways in wide-eyed fear. A man with eyes painted on his cheeks forces people in ...

Film and exhibit pursue surreal pairing of chess and avant-garde art - St. Louis Public Radio

Shannon Bailey - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 19:11

St. Louis Public Radio

Film and exhibit pursue surreal pairing of chess and avant-garde art
St. Louis Public Radio
“If you wanted to get down to the nitty-gritty and look at every art reference in there, it could take a while and you could be intimidated by it,” said curator Shannon Bailey. References to Martins and Duchamp abound, as well as nods to work by ...

Film and exhibit pursue surreal pairing of chess and avant-garde art - St. Louis Public Radio

World Chess Hall of Fame - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 19:11

St. Louis Public Radio

Film and exhibit pursue surreal pairing of chess and avant-garde art
St. Louis Public Radio
This is the second time the artist has worked with The World Chess Hall of Fame, and chess has featured prominently in his work before. His 2011 film A Game of Chess was featured at the museum for an exhibit in 2012. Even the game of chess is personal ...

These museums are just for the kids — in all of us - Chicago Tribune

World Chess Hall of Fame - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 15:34

Chicago Tribune

These museums are just for the kids — in all of us
Chicago Tribune
World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis: Outside is what the hall purports to be the world's largest chess piece (14 feet, 7 inches tall). A look at the life of world chess champ Bobby Fischer is on exhibit until June 7; permanent artifacts include awards ...

The US is about to become a chess powerhouse, thanks to this 22-year-old - Business Insider

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 15:15

Business Insider

The US is about to become a chess powerhouse, thanks to this 22-year-old
Business Insider
There's ample speculation that the bill is being picked up by Rex Sinquefield, a wealthy chess benefactor who established the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis, a veritable chess Mecca in the US – and the host of the Sinquefield Cup, where ...

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The US is about to become a chess powerhouse, thanks to this 22-year-old - Business Insider

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 15:15

Business Insider

The US is about to become a chess powerhouse, thanks to this 22-year-old
Business Insider
There's ample speculation that the bill is being picked up by Rex Sinquefield, a wealthy chess benefactor who established the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis, a veritable chess Mecca in the US – and the host of the Sinquefield Cup, where ...

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Lots to do at area libraries - Foster's Daily Democrat

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 15:03

Foster's Daily Democrat

Lots to do at area libraries
Foster's Daily Democrat
The Barrington Public Library is located at 105 Ramsdell Lane, Barrington, N.H. 03825. DURHAM. — Board Games/Chess for Kids (10 and up)! ... Free. Dover Public Library, 603-516-6050, librarybooks@dover.nh.gov, www.dover.lib.nh.us/. — Jeff Belanger ...

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Funeral For Amtrak Victim Justin Zemser Honors Naval Academy Midshipman - International Business Times

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 14:58

International Business Times

Funeral For Amtrak Victim Justin Zemser Honors Naval Academy Midshipman
International Business Times
In high school he was a football player at Channel View School for Research in Rockaway Park, New York, then went on to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was a ... "I taught Justin how to play chess," said his father. "In the beginning, I ...

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'Know who you are' — Ambassador Heyman speaks to graduating class - iPolitics.ca (subscription)

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 14:48

iPolitics.ca (subscription)

'Know who you are' — Ambassador Heyman speaks to graduating class
iPolitics.ca (subscription)
For about the first two decades of life, we learn mostly in an academic context, in a relatively controlled environment, through exams, presentations, discussions and research papers. At this point .... There's a famous legend about the origin of chess ...

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Lots to do at area libraries - Foster's Daily Democrat

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:56

Lots to do at area libraries
Foster's Daily Democrat
The Barrington Public Library is located at 105 Ramsdell Lane, Barrington, N.H. 03825. DURHAM. — Board Games/Chess for Kids (10 and up)! ... Free. Dover Public Library, 603-516-6050, librarybooks@dover.nh.gov, www.dover.lib.nh.us/. — Jeff Belanger ...

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Governor LePage Leads The Charge To Eliminate Income Tax By 2020 - Forbes

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:57

Forbes

Governor LePage Leads The Charge To Eliminate Income Tax By 2020
Forbes
A committed Missouri philanthropist, I serve as president of the Show Me Institute, a state think-tank for limited government, and am president and chairman of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. To learn more, please visit my website ...

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Governor LePage Leads The Charge To Eliminate Income Tax By 2020 - Forbes

In the News - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:57

Forbes

Governor LePage Leads The Charge To Eliminate Income Tax By 2020
Forbes
A committed Missouri philanthropist, I serve as president of the Show Me Institute, a state think-tank for limited government, and am president and chairman of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. To learn more, please visit my website ...

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Walter Mosley's 'And Sometimes I Wonder About You,' and More - New York Times

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:08

New York Times

Walter Mosley's 'And Sometimes I Wonder About You,' and More
New York Times
But Mosley's strengths have less to do with plot than with the colorful characters he puts in his protagonist's path, like the retired hit man McGill advises to take up meditation (as a way of resisting the itch to kill), or the gunman he personally ...

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NTU Singapore hosts global ICT conference highlighting innovations that ... - Phys.Org

Chess Research - Fri, 05/15/2015 - 08:51

NTU Singapore hosts global ICT conference highlighting innovations that ...
Phys.Org
NTU Singapore is at the forefront of this increasingly significant research area, combining its strengths in engineering and technology with communication and information, and other disciplines. ... Professor Theng Yin Leng, director for the Centre of ...

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