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Continue ReadingStar Trek 3D chess and more out-of-this-world ways to celebrate International Chess Day – ZDNet
July 20 is International Chess Day (also called World Chess Day by the United Nations). In honor of the holiday, the folks at The Noble Collection asked me if I wanted to review the Star Trek chess set. Sometimes my job is really cool.
Continue ReadingChess Sets Used by Jews During the Holocaust – kottke.org – kottke.org
From Yad Vashem, Israels official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, a collection of chess sets used by Jews during the Holocaust. Some of the sets predate the war while others were made and used in camps and in hiding. Playing chess helped to alleviate the suffering of Jews and allowed them a few brief moments of relief from the hunger, the cold and the fear, temporarily easing their loneliness and sense of isolation.
Continue ReadingHow the game of Chess has helped mold Oregon’s Kayvon Thibodeaux – NBC Sports
Chess is a thinking man's game. It can take years and yeasr to perfect, and even then it's no easy game.
Continue ReadingAnand Beats Kramnik In No Castling Match – Chess.com
GM Viswanathan Anand defeated GM Vladimir Kramnik 2.5-1.5 in a four-game No Castling chess match in Dortmund, Germany. Anand's win in the first game was decisive in this event where the players were not allowed to castle. The idea for this match originates from DeepMind's latest paper, co-written by Kramnik, in which the self-learning chess engine AlphaZero was used to explore the design of different variants of the game of chess with different sets of rules.
Continue ReadingThe Sopranos Brings The Mob To The Monopoly Board – Bleeding Cool News
| Fans of The Sopranos will be happy to see that The Op will be bringing the world of that show to the classic tabletop game of Monopoly. Monopoly: The Sopranos is a brand new version of the game that will bring all of the nostalgia and references you can get from the popular HBO drama over to the classic tabletop game of money and property. The game comes with pieces making reference to the series like Dr
Continue ReadingGetting Industrial About The Hybrid Computing And AI Revolution – The Next Platform
For oil and gas companies looking at drilling wells in a new field, the issue becomes one of return vs.
Continue ReadingJeremy Clarkson says firms need staff, migrants need jobs, hmmm I have an idea… – The US Sun
SOME experts are saying that in the past 18 months, while we were all hiding under our beds, the population of London has shrunk by 800,000. And on my increasingly rare trips into the capital, I can believe it
Continue ReadingiChess Play Chess vs Computer
Challenge a powerfull chess computer to a game. You can select the difficulty level anywhere between Easy and Grandmaster, to match your chess skills
Continue ReadingThe most significant contribution AI has made to science: Googles AlphaFold will release the structure of every protein known to science – ZME Science
Its a striking development that could pave the way for discovering many new drugs for treating diseases. The same AI that surpassed humans in games like Go, chess, or Starcraft has now been used to predict the structures of almost every protein made by the human body. DeepMind (an AI subsidiary of Alphabet, Googles parent company) took the world by storm several times.
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