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8-year-old living in homeless shelter wins New York chess championship: 'I want to be the youngest grandmaster'
An 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter has won the New York State chess championship for his age bracket. “I want to be the youngest grandmaster,” Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee who goes by Tani, told The New York Times. Tanitoluwa placed first in the New York State Scholastic Championships tournament for kindergarten through third grade — a remarkable win for anyone.
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Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
After three weeks of draws failed to produce a winner, the players settled the title in rapid chess, with Carlsen retaining his title.
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7-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Banned From World Championships Because She’s Israeli
A seven-year-old Israeli chess prodigy will not be able to participate in the World Chess Championship because the host country, Tunisia, will not allow Israelis to compete, the Times of Israel reported Saturday. Schoolgirl Liel Levitan will instead participate in the World Alternative Championship, which is currently being crowdfunded via a campaign led by fellow Israeli chess player Lior Aizenberg.
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Checkmate: top chess players live longer
Deaths of chess players led to alarm the game could cause fatal stress. Some researchers have tested that theory.
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Google's AI teaches itself chess in 4 hours, then convincingly defeats Stockfish
There has just been a revolutionary development in the world of AI, and in the world of chess. Google’s Artificial Intelligence project, DeepMind explains they’re on a scientific mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. A little over a year ago, DeepMind released AlphaGo, which sensationally defeated the world champion of the famously CPU unfriendly ancient Chinese game, GO.
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'I am ready to stand for my principles': Double world chess champion says she won't defend titles in Saudi Arabia because of kingdom's inequality
The Ukrainian, 27, will not travel to Saudi Arabia, where she wouldn’t even be allowed to walk down the street unaccompanied. It takes years of work, days of staring at a board and hours of agonising over individuals moves en route to becoming a world champion in chess.
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AlphaZero AI beats champion chess program after teaching itself in four hours
Google’s artificial intelligence sibling DeepMind repurposes Go-playing AI to conquer chess and shogi without aid of human knowledge
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Entire human chess knowledge learned and surpassed by DeepMind's AlphaZero in four hours
Hundreds of years of chess knowledge was learned and then surpassed by Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence algorithm in just four hours, it has emerged.
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Holding chess championship in Saudi Arabia is a 'horrible' move, top players say
Fide, the World Chess Federation, has been accused of "total moral degredation" after awarding this year's $2 million world speed chess championship to Saudi Arabia. A raft of top players have now revealed they will boycott the blitz and rapid event, one of the most exciting in the chess calendar, over concerns about safety and human rights in the ultra-conservative regime.
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This NYC chess hustler makes $400 a day
Six years ago, Ambakisye Osayaba made his big move — he quit his part-time city job cleaning Central Park and began playing chess full-time. Now he earns up to $400 a day.
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The ancient game that saved a village
The green paint on the walls of Marottichal’s village teashop had started to flake, like coin scrapings on a scratch card, exposing a light blue tone of a bygone era. Perhaps this was once a rowdy bar or beer shop. But not anymore. Mr Unnikrishnan, the teashop’s owner, sat opposite me at one of the wooden tables, his dark eyes fixated on the chequered board that lay between us with an intimidating intensity.
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The Beautiful, Stunning Move That Won Magnus Carlsen the World Chess Championship
Magnus Carlsen retained his world title with one of the most beautiful, stunning moves in the history of the World Chess Championship. By Matt Gaffney.
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Are Computers Draining The Beauty Out Of Chess?
The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond. The darkness heightened the strategic drama, leaving an eerie purple glow shining out from behind the thick glass of the players’ room.
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Are Computers Draining The Beauty Out Of Chess?
The sixth game of the World Chess Championship was over before the sun set. This was new. The intricately fought contests had thus far lasted until night fell, and sometimes well beyond. The darkne…
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“I will NOT wear a hijab and support women’s oppression”: US chess champion boycotts world championship in Iran
The reigning US Chess Champion has decided not to attend the world championship in Iran because she'd be forced to wear a hijab. “I will NOT wear a hijab and support women’s oppression. Even if it means missing one of the most important competitions of my career,” Nazi Paikidze said in an interview with the founder of My Stealthy Freedom.
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Female chess players forced to wear hijab as governing body awards world championship to Iran
The world's top female chess players have reacted with horror after being told they must compete at next year's world championship wearing a hijab.
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Truth, beauty and annihilation: my quest for chess mastery | Stephen Moss
The Long Read: When I hit a slump in middle age, I set out on a quest to see if playing better chess would make me a better person. I was unprepared for the pain of defeat
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Chess legend Korchnoi dies in Switzerland aged 85
Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, who defected from Russia to the West in 1976, has died in Switzerland aged 85. Born in 1931 in what is now St Petersburg, Korchnoi survived the siege of Leningrad during World War Two and is seen as one of the best players never to be World Champion. He was a four-time USSR champion and ranked number one in the world in 1965. However, he became convinced he had to leave the Soviet Union after being banned from playing internationally.
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Rare chess piece found in back yard of museum
The smallest medieval Arabic chess piece to be discovered in the country has been unearthed in an archaeological dig at Wallingford Museum.
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Inside The World Of A Prison Chess Player
Robert Booker, a Detroit native currently serving a 30-year sentence for distributing crack cocaine, has been down for almost two decades. In that time, he’s played thousands of games of chess. I saw it firsthand when I was on the yard with Booker at FCI Gilmer, a medium-security prison in Virginia. The incarcerated population in the US numbers more than 2 million and since that population is largely barred from access to higher education...
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