We may look at a robot as being incredibly adultlike and smart: Machines such as IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue and "Jeopardy!"
Dixon, already a celebrated bluesman, helped Taylor sign with Chicago's Chess Records and wrote a song for her that became her signature.
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.
Filatov has previously merged his love of chess and art by sponsoring this year's World Chess Championship Match at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
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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It's like playing chess and being black and always copying white's moves.
"Tiger is one of the most competitive guys I've ever come across whether it's golf, chess or table-tennis, " added McIlroy.
Unlike IBM's Deep Blue chess project in the 90s, which was pretty much pure math, Watson has to deal with the natural language and punny nature of real Jeopardy questions.
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"He's a master chess player, " says one political analyst.
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It is now the Willie Dixon Blues Heaven Foundation (2120 S Michigan Ave), named for the bassist who wrote most of Chess's hits.
In America, a similar study suggested chess improved children's reading and writing skills, and led to chess being placed on the curriculum in New Jersey.
It is a vision embraced by the club's founder, Maurice Engler, a former guidance counselor at the school who said he dreams of creating a network of poker teams across the city to akin to what's in place for chess.
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The product is endorsed by one of the country's most popular celebrities, chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand.
But as much as experts like to argue about tactics, women's soccer is not a chess match or a beauty contest.
Falling behind forces a greater willingness to take chances, whether it's sacrificing an important piece in chess or betting big on a poker bluff.
Mr Gates's single-minded focus on winning everything, whether a chess game or a vital business deal, was complemented by his partner's ability to see the bigger picture an ability reinforced by Mr Allen's eclectic set of outside interests, ranging from music to sport and science fiction.
Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman.
At a recent group exhibition of wildly inventive chess sets (Sellers's nod to the London Olympic Games), she sold a paper version of the classic game for next to nothing.
Then, fingering the line, he waits, with a monk's tireless patience and the concentration of a chess player.
Chess could prove to be Mutesi's ticket out of a hard life -- particularly through a project that lies ahead.
The 1993 Chess World Championship match between Britain's Nigel Short and Russia's Gary Kasparov was extensively televised and made Mr Short an instant fortune.
The old Chess studio is two miles south of downtown's core and easy to reach.
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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As most Americans ponder the home-run derby between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, software's own Sultan of Swat delights in the sport of mental chess.
"It's one of those things where the players are definitely just chess pieces and the general managers are shuffling and moving them around and you don't have a say so you just worry about hockey, " Miller said.
Reed was Vee-Jay's first star and helped the label take on local blues giant Chess Records.
In chess, as in heavyweight boxing, the people's champion is the contender who beat the previous champion.
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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