Most days my grandfather sits at his computer, playing chess online with old friends.
Right now a computer might play Jeopardy, but it knows nothing about playing chess.
Famous practitioners, such as Tristan and Iseult or Lancelot and Guinevere, were portrayed playing chess.
It was old people playing chess and waiting to see God, and it was also the deadliest city in the country.
This is like playing chess with only two kings left on the board.
Programming quickly became associated with a male-stereotyped activity like math or playing chess.
Russians and Americans playing chess peaceably, seemingly and inexplicably at the bottom of the sea.
As Russell Glasser put it (paraphrasing), engaging in counter-apologetics is like playing Chess.
But it has been adopted by students who engage in intellectual pursuits like playing chess or reading history as they sip their pulque.
It's like playing chess and being black and always copying white's moves.
Arikha drew Beckett constantly, with his beaked bird's profile, in silverpoint, ink and crayon: playing chess, smoking, listening, pushing back his glasses.
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The way they are seeking to do this, they are so clever at this, we on the right, as conservatives we're always playing checkers and the left is always playing chess.
Researchers at Rush Medical University found that mentally challenging activities, such as reading and playing chess, may have a protective effect on the brain and help lower risk of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease.
While the rest of the city darts around in sharp suits, with a takeaway coffee in one hand and an iPhone in the other, old men sit on wooden stools at the entrance to their hundred-year-old hutong bungalows, drinking beer, playing chess and chewing the fat.
Neither the Jeopardy-playing computer nor the chess-playing one has any sense of how a soccer ball bounces.
With that elderly ailing yachtsman, Sir Francis Chichester, safely where he belongs (in hospital) we can devote our undivided attention to that other mid-summer non-event: moody Bobby Fischer, the capitalist world's money-grubbing little horror, playing, or not playing, chess against sporty Boris Spassky, whose sportiness vanishes at a flick from the Soviet machine behind him.
IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue and its predecessor took six years of fine-tuning before finally beating chess master Garry Kasparov in 1997.
We may look at a robot as being incredibly adultlike and smart: Machines such as IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue and "Jeopardy!"
He ranges over a number of themes, from seismology to chess-playing, but exhibit A is the American housing crash of 2007-08 that triggered the financial crisis.
The contrast with Deep Blue, the chess-playing machine, is telling.
This notion was revived in the 1950s, when the building of a genuine chess-playing machine was seen by artificial-intelligence researchers as a stepping-stone towards a general theory of machine intelligence.
"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.
Jenny says Eva was a smart kid who showed talent for playing weiqi , or chess, but born into a family that emphasized literature and liberal arts, her early aptitude for math and science was largely overlooked.
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When the president of the southern Russian republic of Kalmykia, a chess-playing autocrat with a belief in mysticism, threatened to secede on November 17th in a row over tax payments, a growl from the centre even one not backed with any credible force was enough to make him back down straight away.
Kramnik lost, 4-2 to the multi-processor version of Chessbase's commercial software in Bonn, Germany. (To Kramnik's credit, in 2002, he'd held Deep Fritz to a draw.) However, this match may end interest in further advancing the field of chess-playing computers, according to Monty Newborn, a professor of computer science at McGill University.
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The stakes just got higher in the 3-D chess game China is playing for natural resources.
They include basketball, chess, tennis and violin playing, Johansson found, yet a rapidly increasing range of lucky breaks spring from our capacity to recognize and seize unexpected opportunities.
Belichick had suddenly stopped playing checkers and turned the game into a chess match, successfully pulling off the ultimate strategic sacrifice.
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In my second post about the new MEGA encrypted file service I discussed the chess game that Kim Dotcom was playing with the policers of copyright.
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