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Biel: Round 1 Results & Round 2 Odds
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Monday, 22 July 2013 |
Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. A digest of the most important chess news in one short post:
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 July 2013 )
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Computer Chess - New Movie
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Monday, 22 July 2013 |
Synopsis:
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.
Game #1
This was the first recorded chess match played between computer programs. At the height of the cold war, The Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) defeated Kotok-McCarthy at Stanford University by a score of 3 games to 1. The match was played over telegraph and took 9 months to complete. The ITEP chess program ran on a slower Soviet M-20 computer. The Kotok-McCarthy program ran on an IBM 7090.
Many of the programmers at ITEP went on to develop the program Kaissa, named after the goddess of chess, which won the first World Computer Chess Championship in Stockholm, 1974.
Interested? Learn more at the official website, especially the Games section.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 July 2013 )
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Sunday, 21 July 2013 |
Photo from the official website
The annual Biel Chess Festival is hosting a couple of chess tournaments, including the highly prestigious GM group.
This year the line-up is very intriguing: Ding Liren (China, 2714), Ian Nepomniatchi (Russia, 2717), Richard Rapport (Hungary, 2693), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2719), Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine, 2699), Etienne Bacrot (France, 2714). On the one hand, all these GMs are extremely strong and quite titled. On the other hand, it's always nice to see more 2700+ players getting invited to super tournaments, because watching the same 8-10 super GMs playing in ALL the top events is getting somewhat boring after a while. Who do you think will win?
Schedule: July 22-27, July 29-August 1.
Pairings and odds for Round 1 (July 22, 14:00 local time):
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 July 2013 )
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Sunday, 21 July 2013 |
Puzzle courtesy of Barry R. Clarke, columnist for The Daily Telegraph and international puzzle expert
Check out his new book "Mathematical Puzzles and Curiosities" on Amazon
The Witch's Pudding
Winnie the witch had a habit of lodging in people's broom closets where she would experiment with her vile concoctions. On one occasion she had five ingredients ready to put in a pudding. The volume of dishwater was one half of the cauldron volume, the brandy was one third, the snow was one quarter, the crushed pig's ear was one fifth and the sheep droppings was one sixth. The total volume of the second and third ingredients was less than half of the cauldron volume. The brandy was added later than the crushed pig's ear but earlier than the dish water. The snow was added two places after the sheep droppings. Of course the cauldron spilled over.
In what order were the ingredients added?
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 July 2013 )
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Chess: Top-10 among Russian Sports
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Saturday, 20 July 2013 |
Yandex, a company that owns the largest Russian search engine, has published a report dealing with popularity of different sports in Russia.
Here is a quote from the document (translated into English by Pogonina.com):
Among all sports the leader is soccer 5-10 million queries monthly, depending on the season. A close second is hockey - during championships there are 6-8 million queries per month.
Other top-10 sports include motor racing, basketball, biathlon, boxing, volleyball, athletics, tennis and chess. These sports attract from a few hundred thousand to 2-3 million queries per month
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 July 2013 )
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Universiade in Kazan: Part II
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Happy International Chess Day
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