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Essex Team Blitz Championship
25 June 2017, 10.00 am, at Ilford CC
Teams of four. Closing date for entries: 23 June 2017.
Isaak and Vladimir Linder, Max Euwe: 5th World Chess Champion. (Russell Enterprises, 2017.) Foreword by Andy Soltis, Game Annotations by Karsten Mueller. 238 pp., $24.95. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos.
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Garry Kasparov is one of the greatest chess players of all time.
And to that end, Business Insider asked him in an interview what he thinks separates a good chess player from a great one.
The second issue of the best chess magazine in the United States, and probably one of the best chess magazines in the world, is in print. Weighing in at 152 large pages on glossy paper, with full color photographs...
This past week there were a couple more matches in Chess.com's 2017 Speed Chess Championship: Sergey Karjakin vs. Georg Meier and Wesley So vs. Anish Giri. The first match was an utter blowout in terms of the score, but on a game-by-game basis the players were well-matched.
Just over 20 years ago was the first time a computer beat a human world champion in a chess match, when IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat Gary Kasparov in a narrow victory of 3½ games to 2½. Just under a decade later...
Soccer is a very beautiful sport. For me, it's akin to chess on grass. The mental and physical toll it takes on the men and women who play it can best be described as arduous. Like many of you, I was taught to appreciate baseball, basketball and football in my youth.
I'm not going to analyze any of the three, mainly to avoid domesticating them. Each impressed and amazed me in its own way. The first, Najer-Mamedyarov, is a tactical tour de force by the hottest player in chess.
On 30th September 2016, the Bulgarian Chess Federation filled an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decision of the European Chess Union General Assembly on 10th of September 2016 to expel the Bulgarian Chess federation from the European Chess Union.
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Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess players of all time, is famous for his pair of faceoffs against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.
Kasparov won the first match against the computer, 4-2, in 1996, but lost in the rematch, 3½-2½, in 1997.
Artificial intelligence is where the competition is in IT, with Microsoft and Google both parading powerful, always-available AI tools for the enterprise at their respective developer conferences, Build and I/O, in May.