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The Chess Computer From 1912
Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...
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Surgeons Identify—And Save—A Patient’s Chess-Playing Brain Area
Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...
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Two Chinese Chess Grandmasters Receive Lifetime Bans for Match-Fixing
The Chinese Xiangqi Association has issued lifetime bans to top players Wang Tianyi and Wang Yuefei for match-fixing and ...
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Unprecedented DNA computer solves Sudoku and mini-Chess, potentially stores an ungodly amount of data
For billions of years, DNA has quietly carried the blueprints for all life on Earth, encoding instructions for everything ...
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Zimbabwe Chess team shines at Olympiad
Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter Zimbabwe Chess Federation team shined at the 45th Chess Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary ...
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Danny Ainge shares a story of Bill Walton being obsessed with chess but being at it: "We thought he was a chess genius"
Bill Walton had a similar obsession, but instead of golf, it was chess. As peculiar as it sounds, his Boston Celtics ...
The Economist5d
The sport in which nine-year-old prodigies are world-beaters
T HE GRANDMASTER sits at the pinnacle of chess. The title evokes excellence and experience, a garland for someone who has ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers plunges deep into the ocean in 'Playground'
Richard Powers' latest novel brims with love for humanity and the planet. He makes clear that while humans have made this ...
Cognitive Reserve – Why You Need Save Your Excess Brainpower For Later Use
Like retirement planning, where you build financial reserves for use when you are older, you need to save excess brainpower, ...
New Scientist1mon
DNA computer can play chess and solve sudoku puzzles
A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...
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What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion (under regular time constraints)?
IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...
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chess computer
Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...