Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation.

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During all of this time together, we rarely discussed discrete chess moves, and I don't believe that he ever learned my secret.

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For the first time, the U.S. Chess Federation, in concert with Super Nationals, is also hosting a session for the adults in tow on how to be good chess parents and coaches.

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For the first time on Facebook, Idle Worship provides players with synchronous play: the ability to interact with other players in real time, as opposed to the old chess-by-email systems employed by the majority of social games.

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The world chess championship was being played in Moscow for the first time since Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov in 1985.

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He was teased by the late star's long-time manager, Joe Adams, about always losing chess games to Ray Charles.

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Almost as bad as noncomputable problems are intractable ones (such as determining whether there is a guaranteed winning strategy for an arbitrary chess position), which cannot be solved in a reasonable amount of time.

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"It's a long way to go, and is like a combination of playing three-dimensional chess and bridge and trying to run a NASA space programme, all at the same time, " he added.

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By speeding up the cycle and giving it a definite time frame, Mr Ilyuzhinov's approach promises to increase media, and therefore public, interest in chess.

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