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26 weird sports considered for Tokyo Olympics
BASEBALL and softball could be included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But how about korfball, billiards, chess, bridge or even American football?
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Math.random() vs Math.random()
View example in new window.
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Utilization of Squares by Chess Grandmasters
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chess battle
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Walter Shawn Browne, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 66
Walter Shawn Browne, an aggressive, animated chess grandmaster and six-time United States champion who dazzled spectators with his world-class ability at speed chess, died on Wednesday in Las Vegas, where he had been competing in the 50th National Open. He was 66. He died in his sleep while resting at the home of a friend, according to an announcement on the Las Vegas International Chess Festival’s website. The cause was not yet known.
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Yoko Ono releases chess app with dogs as pieces
'Yoko Chess' is a Yoko Ono-branded free iOS chess game that aims to "re-purpose" chess for the 21st century.
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Life-size chess at refurbished Caernarfon Castle - BBC News
Life-size chess and a new entrance are among the new features at the refurbished Caernarfon Castle in Gwynedd.
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CCRL: A Rating List for Chess Engines
CCRL plays chess engines against each other in order to determine which engines are the strongest at any one time.
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North Texas Grandmaster, Just A Teen, Plays To Be U.S. Junior Chess Champ
When Jeffery was just 13 last summer, he scared competitors at the Junior championship in St. Louis with a shockingly good start. He led halfway through the 10-day contest, then faced tougher players, got tired, and faltered by the end. So he turned to physical training to better his brain game.
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People play huge Chinese chess at water park in Chongqing
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Watch the best top rated games of lichess.org
Sit back, relax, and watch the best top rated lichess players compete on lichess TV
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The International Fight Over Marcel Duchamp's Chess Set
In 2014, Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera, both 3D-fabrication artists in the United States, gave the world something they considered a gift and homage: a re-creation of Marcel Duchamp’s personal hand-carved chess set. It had come from an earlier work of Kildall. “In 2010, I made Playing Duchamp, which was a commissioned art project,” said Kildall. “I reprogrammed an open-source chess engine to play chess as if it were Marcel Duchamp.
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Everret Banker
If I'm not golfing, I'm working on my chess skills.
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The bitter rivalry behind the world’s smallest chess program
“You only have one life and so many minutes in your day—in your life—to accomplish things and to focus on things that matter,” Olivier Poudade says. His heavily accented voice comes crackling down the line from his cellphone, bounced and beamed from Savoie, in the French Alps, where he’s vacationing and visiting his mother.
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2200 year old walrus bones suggest the most famous medieval chess set might be Icelandic in origin
Carbon dating of walrus bones found in Snæfellsnes peninsula indicates that the bones are at least 2000 years old.
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An Art Without an Artwork
A summer of chess in Bryant Park. By Tom Russell.
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The cyborg chess players that can’t be beaten
Computers have revolutionised the way chess is played – and can beat any player. But could a part-human and part-computer player be even more powerful? It all started back in 1968 with a simple bet. A 23-year-old Scottish chess champion called David Levy was at a cocktail party. The party was being hosted by Donald Michie, founder of the University of Edinburgh’s department of machine intelligence and perception.
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This ring is also the world's smallest chess set
The tiny board, made from fossil ivory and ebony, flips up on wincy hinges to reveal 32 minuscule chess pieces. The ring itself is sterling silver, and there's only one of them, made by Arduosity, who notes "I can tell you it is impossible, near impossible to set up."
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Your life is Tetris, stop playing it like chess
You can play your life like Tetris or maybe like a chess, are you playing the game wrong?
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Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi mufti, but issue not black and white
Game likely to take on status of minor vices such as music after Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh says it encourages gambling
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