Search results for "Chess" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Beersheba is also Israel's leading chess center. The local chess club has won many cups and national championships. It represented Israel ...24 KB (3,637 words) - 10:25, 26 September 2023
- which also displays Nabokov's love of chess, has a parallel structure ... * (1971) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- learning roughly 50,000 chunks of information. A chess expert was said to have learned about 50,000 chunks, or chess position patterns. For his 20 years ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- Another example of Scott's vanity was his reaction to losing at chess to a young New Orleans lad named Paul Morphy in 1846. Scott did not ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- age of seven, he had also learned to play chess. Much like music, chess would ... * [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=61923 The chess ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- that algorithms are simply out of question. Chess players cannot rely on algorithms ... calculation of possible moves when playing chess is one example. In these ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- D. G. Champernowne, began writing a chess program for a computer that ... a machine could be constructed to play chess, he came to included the ...35 KB (5,278 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- roughly translates as "encirclement chess," "board game of ... aristocratic class while Xiangqi (Chinese chess) was the game of the masses ...59 KB (9,910 words) - 03:53, 24 May 2024
- English painter John Everett Millais; and chess player German: "miracle ... Polgar set out to raise his children to be chess players, and all three of ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 2023
- skill in playing the game of Go (like Chinese Chess); Emperor Tang Xuanzong liked him and some scholars believe that this eccentric monk was possibly ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- * God can know all possibilities. The same way a master chess player is able to anticipate not only one scenario but several and prepare the ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- admires Mexicans, is a student of classical chess games and classical music ... contemplative and philosophical. He enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- Roskilde, the two brothers-in-law were playing chess and started arguing with each other. The next day, the Christmas of 1026, Canute had one of his Housecarls ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- pictures, pagan books, sculptures, gaming tables, chess pieces, lutes and other musical instruments, fine dresses, women's hats, and the works of ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 14:26, 22 May 2024
- popular modern board games, including Chess, Parcheesi and Snakes and ... games. Shatranj, the forerunner of modern chess, was introduced from India ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- aged and elderly men. Baduk has a similar status as chess in Western cultures. Jangji, a Korean version of chess, developed based on an ancient version ...29 KB (4,255 words) - 06:48, 11 January 2024
- Sports such as golf, tennis, swimming, chess and horseback riding are ... Chess is a popular type of recreation favored by the Icelanders Viking ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- for the Pope to rise above being a player in the chess game of kings and emperors, rather than an independent agent, Pope Urban V, now the Blessed Urban ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- Ivan died while playing chess with Bogdan Belsky on March 18, 1584, a date which had previously been prophesied for his death. When Ivan's ...11 KB (1,776 words) - 06:37, 11 March 2024
- #039; Modern Records, which would later become Chess Records. Hooker's first hit was an uptempo foot stomper, "Boogie Chillen," which ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
