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Milwaukee Chess Program Helps Inner City Kids Develop Life Skills

For many kids, summer means sleeping in late, hanging out with friends and having a whole lot of fun. For some, it’s also means strategizing their next move. A new program teaches kids a game that ...
The Conversation

A chess program helped this 8‑year‑old raise $240,000 and get his family out of a homeless shelter – here’s what to look for in a chess program for your child

Third-grader Tanitoluwa Adewumi was crowned as a New York State Scholastic chess champion on March 10. GoFundMe Before he won the primary (K-3) championship section of the New York State Scholastic ...
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JCPS chess program aims to help student in and out of the classroom

EFFECT ON JULY 1ST. WELL, SOME OFHE T COUNTRY’S BEST CHSES PLAYERS LEARNED THE GAME AS STUDENTS AT JEFRSFEON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IT’S PART OF AN AFTER-SCHOOL ...
Wired

Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...
The Guardian

AlphaZero AI beats champion chess program after teaching itself in four hours

Google’s artificial intelligence sibling DeepMind repurposes Go-playing AI to conquer chess and shogi without aid of human knowledge AlphaZero, the game-playing AI created by Google sibling DeepMind, ...