Showing posts with label chess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chess. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2025

Great story about Bills receiver Amari Cooper convincing a 14 year old to teach him to play chess

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An article from August headlined, "Why did NFL stars gather in June to play chess? It all began with Amari Cooper’s vision": When...
Friday, October 7, 2022

"Centaur chess" and the "Wicked Problem"

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From a long interview about the state of cheating in high level chess: Machines alone can beat the world’s best chess master easily, but hu...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Scandal in the chess world after legend loses to 19-year-old grandmaster

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Guardian : Magnus Carlsen’s shock withdrawal from the $350,000 Sinquefield Cup in St Louis following his third-round defeat to the newcomer ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

"No one has won a regulation game in a [chess] world championship since the Obama administration"

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Oliver Roeder with several, aggressive suggestions for change : Format inversion Keep it simple! Instead of 14 games in which the players st...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

America's newest chess master is a 10-year-old who started playing while living in a homeless shelter in New York after fleeing Boko Haram

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NPR : [He] practices chess "every day" after school for "10, 11 hours"  ...  "I say to myself that I never lose, th...
Friday, September 13, 2019

"In 2004, winner Rustam Kasimdzhanov walked away from the six-game world [chess] championship having lost 17 pounds"

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ESPN looks at the physical demands of high level chess: In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored c...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

"A third-place finish at a tournament last month by a formerly obscure player was so startling that organizers searched his clothing and took apart his pen looking for evidence that he had outside help"

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NYT : They found nothing. But the episode has again raised the question of how officials can monitor games in an era when technology is ...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Chess set, where pieces become opaque when removed from the board

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Designed by Yasmine Sethi , who says she was inspired by Through the Looking Glass. Via . *Previously: Alice In Wonderland-themed fashion s...