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on Muddy Waters: His Best: 1947 to 1955. Chess, 1997. ASIN: B000005KQH Like ... was playing on Muddy's recordings for Chess Records, and his harmonica ...

===Chess=== In 1894, Binet conducted one of the first psychological studies into ...

===The Chess years=== In 1960, James signed a recording contract with Chess Records. The ...

and later releasing the rights for them to Chess Records. ... Wolf signed with Modern Records and to the Chess label in 1951. How Many More ...

Records (which would later evolve into Chess Records) featured Waters ... his fortunes gradually began to wane as Chess Records turned their attention ...

himself, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records. Berry thought ... In 1966, Berry left Chess Records, moving to the Mercury label. The ...

labels, as well as for the better known Chess Records. His backing musicians ... * 1960 I Can't Hold Out b/w The Sun Is Shining (Chess 1756) ...

| Label = Chess | Associated_acts = | URL = www.bluesheaven ... for Chicago's premier blues label, Chess Records, in its heyday during ...

set in informal ways such as playing chess or holding animals, since ... 1554, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna), The Chess Game (1555, Museum Narowe ...

dances, and clubs, and was ultimately signed to the Chess subsidiary, Checkmate Records, releasing its first record, the Reeves-led "I'll Let ...

Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy—something highly valued in the U.S.S.R. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays ...

when his dramatic allegory, A Game at Chess was staged by the King's ... * A Game at Chess, a political satire (1624). Satirized the negotiations ...

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess ...

the Waters-inspired I'm A Man" at Chess Records. The record became ... . They then re-recorded the songs at Chess Studios. The record was released ...

attempted to gain a recording contract with Chess Records, the premier record ... He was soon outselling even the great Chess blues stars like Muddy Waters ...

traditional strategy games like computer chess, and various video games. ... written by Christopher Strachey and a chess-playing program written by ...

staged, as is the reversed shot of the chess pieces being pushed off a ... staged, as is the reversed shot of the chess pieces being pushed off a ...

cousin, Roquel Davis, The Aims signed with Chess Records in 1956, changing ... Four Tops endured unsuccessful tenures at Chess, Red Top, Riverside Records ...

Shogi (将棋 shōgi), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Shogi is said to be derived from ...

1975 article that MIT had invented a new chess computer program that predicted ... Martin Gardner, Mathematician and Lifelong Chess Fan, Dies at 95] The United ...

Beersheba is also Israel's leading chess center. The local chess club has won many cups and national championships. It represented Israel ...

which also displays Nabokov's love of chess, has a parallel structure ... * (1971) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

roughly translates as "encirclement chess," "board game of ... aristocratic class while Xiangqi (Chinese chess) was the game of the masses ...

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 ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

admires Mexicans, is a student of classical chess games and classical music ... contemplative and philosophical. He enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not ...

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 ...

pictures, pagan books, sculptures, gaming tables, chess pieces, lutes and other musical instruments, fine dresses, women's hats, and the works of ...

popular modern board games, including Chess, Parcheesi and Snakes and ... games. Shatranj, the forerunner of modern chess, was introduced from India ...

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 ...

Sports such as golf, tennis, swimming, chess and horseback riding are ... Chess is a popular type of recreation favored by the Icelanders Viking ...

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 ...

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 ...

#039; Modern Records, which would later become Chess Records. Hooker's first hit was an uptempo foot stomper, "Boogie Chillen," which ...

to make a boxing match into a game of chess; a style which was not popular during the times when such sluggers like Jack Dempsey, Harry Greb ...

Dennett gives the example of playing a computer at chess. While few people would agree that the computer held beliefs, treating the computer as if it ...

most classical board games including go and chess. Many games studied by game ... game. Perfect information games include chess, go, mancala, and arimaa. ...

label in 1969, and recorded for Dunhill, MGM, and Chess labels in the 70s. In the 80s and 90s, Burke was one of the chief exponents of classic ...

him to Gotthold Lessing; both men were avid chess players. Berlin, in the days of Frederick the Great, was in a moral and intellectual turmoil ...

mathematics and how to play the game of chess. His works were widely published throughout Europe, and some were later translated into Latin ...

Timur was also said to have created Tamerlane Chess, a variant of shatranj (also known as medieval chess) played on a larger board with several ...

Distance is a numerical description of the separation between objects or points at a given moment in time. In physics or everyday discussion ...

of a major Go (Asian board game resembling chess) match in 1938, on which Kawabata had actually reported for the Mainichi newspaper chain. It ...

labels with major marketing operations, such as Chess and RPM. In 1951, Phillips recorded Jackie Brenston's “Rocket 88” (with Ike Turner on ...

the Stones began years of recording at American Chess Studios in Chicago and RCA Studios in Los Angeles. The Stones' version of “Little Red ...

reality a simpleton, a romantic, and a piece in a chess game played by others. Stendhal uses his addled hero to satirize French society of the time, ...

knight encounters Death. They enter into a game of chess for the knight’s life, a game that the knight is naturally destined to lose. The game is ...

* Don Sandalio, jugador de ajedrez (Don Sandalio, Chess Player) (1930). * "San Manuel Bueno, mártir" (Saint Manuel the Good, Martyr ...

* 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) (experimental, co-directed by Cocteau) ==Selected works== *Cocteau, Jean, Le coq et l'arlequin: ...

(such as playing grand master level chess) formerly assumed to be impossible if done by software simulation are now routinely programmed. The ...

mistakes or anticipating certain input, and playing chess and other games which require human-like intelligence. A new field of science has developed ...

* Search and enumeration: Many problems (such as playing chess) can be modeled as problems on graphs. A graph exploration algorithm specifies ...

as Japan. Just as with popular board games such as chess, shogi, and go, local, regional, and national competitions in abacus use are held for students. ...

* Knowledge and expertise: In Oscar Chess Ltd v. Williams,'Oscar Chess Ltd v. Williams [1957] 1 WLR 370. a person selling a car to a second ...

Tit-for-Tat players (see for instance Chess 1988), but there is no analytic ... * Chess, David M. (1988). Simulating the evolution of behavior: the ...

of Games, a festival of bridge, belote, backgammon, chess, draughts, tarot and more, which takes place each February. * The Festival de la Plaisance ...

[[Image:TurnedChessPieces.jpg|thumb|200px|Chess pieces shaped with a lathe.]] == Major categories of lathes == === Cue lathes === Cue lathes function ...

or ill-doing. His only real hobby was chess.Victor Sebestyen, Twelve Days - The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books ...

*The Chess Game (1906) [http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/The_Chess_Game.htm Harvard Club of New York City] *Portrait of Almina, Daughter of ...

Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve; the game remained ... supplemented his income playing "chess for quarters" in Washington ...

taught his sons both handball and Ping-Pong, chess, how to compose and type stories, as well as to invent. He received a bachelor’s and master’s ...

applies the language to, among other things, chess. *1949 - Short Code, the first computer language actually used on an electronic computing device ...

human deliberation makes a big difference—a chess player who deliberates should usually be able to defeat one of equal strength who is only allowed ...

and 1994, has compared this aspect of the game to chess. See: Richard Hunkler PhD, Water Polo Planet (April 1, 2006): [http://waterpoloplanet.com/HTML_Hunkler_ ...

In real life, Bogart himself played tournament chess, one level below ... pid=65398 Humphrey Bogart] Chess Games. * [http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/B ...

* In chess, each side has eight pawns and the board is made of 64 squares arranged in an eight by eight lattice. * The eight queens puzzle is ...

who shared Ray's passion of films, chess and western classical music. ... In 1977, Ray completed Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players), an ...

two days in a row. Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess ran for nine straight performances in August 1624, before it was closed by the authorities—but ...

analogy with competitive sports: in a game of chess, I will be trying my utmost to win, but I will also expect my opponent to do the same, and I may ...

the late nineteenth century. Viswanathan Anand, the chess World champion and the world's top ranked chess player as of October 2007, grew up in Chennai. ...

diary from age 10 until 24. He enjoyed chess, harpsichord, stamp collecting, and gardening. When World War I began in 1914, Himmler's diaries ...

He became passionate about chess, and began entering tournaments from ... During this time his fondness for chess was rekindled, and he attended ...

including the annual Ashdod International Chess Festival. The city has a cricket team, a rarity in Israel. It is run and organized by citizens ...

blues style recorded for the Chicago-based Chess Records label. ... as Alligator Records, Blind Pig Records, Chess Records (Music Corporation ...

which includes a nationally ranked chess team and nationally ranked debate team. More than 100 students work for the University's award ...

easy to pick up but difficult to master, much like chess or even poker. Despite their simplicity, simple games may also feature online capabilities or ...

well known is a custom to play cards, dreidel, chess or other table games. The Lubavitcher Rebbe was known to spend his Nittel Nachts sewing. Some ...

Duan Wu festival. Board games such as International Chess, Go (Weiqi), and Xiangqi (Chinese chess) are also common and have organized formal competitions ...

R&B/soul subsidiary, purchased from Chess Records. Notable artists included David Ruffin and The Del-Phis (later Martha & the Vandellas). ...

"Mama Loocie," released in 1959 on Chess Records, was Gaye's first single with the Moonglows and his first recorded lead. After ...

light shows, musical chairs, a gigantic chess game, and many other activities. The Common is also used for gatherings. * Construction Zone: Inspired ...

250px|thumb|Armenian children at the UN Cup Chess Tournament in 2005.]] ... in Armenia, including football (soccer), chess, boxing, basketball, hockey ...

American Historians in association with ERIC/ChESS, 1987. ISBN 9780941339001 *Schechter, Stephen L. Teaching about American Federal Democracy ...

cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and world champion chess grandmaster Garri Kasparov. == Notes == == References == * Kazemzadeh, Firuz. The Struggle ...

abandon, and resume several histories, much as a chess player who plays several games at once, renewing now this one, now the another" (Ricoeur ...

items, books, game sets (most commonly chess) as well as jewelry for sale. ==History== [[Image:Kiou1562.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A fragment of Russiae ...

* Chess libraries * Esperanto libraries * Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, the world's largest genealogy library. ...

used for card and board games such as solitaire, chess, and mahjongg, among others. 2D graphics editors or drawing programs are application-level ...

social places where friends gather to talk or play chess while drinking tea. ;Egypt In Egypt, coffee houses are called 'ahwa' and combine ...

4/ Fundamentals] Mathematics and Chess. Retrieved October 21, 2021. ==Armaments== [[Image:John von Neumann ID badge.png|right|thumb|300px|John ...

of contests ranging from rugby and cricket, to chess and tiddlywinks. The Cambridge Union serves as a forum for debate while university drama ...

eating as well as the prohibition of chess. He forbade the fisherman from catching any fish that had no scales and forbade people from selling ...

The same is true for shooting and chess. In Europe, "Indian" restaurants are very popular, but most are actually run by Bangladeshis ...

improve skills (for example, becoming a better chess player). It is a state of absorption in one's work, characterized by intense concentration ...

lives a year during its last decade of futile chess game warfare…. The expense in gold and rupees can hardly be accurately estimated. [Aurangzeb ...

ranked fifth in the FIVB ranklist. One of the top chess-masters in the world, Veselin Topalov, is Bulgarian. At the end of 2005, both men's and ...

in the cafes, including (backgammon variants) and chess. In Damascus, popular sports include football, basketball, swimming, and table tennis ...

theater, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game clubs.[http://orgsync.rso.cornell.edu/About Student Organizations] Cornell University ...

legal arrest of Burr. Frances and Burr played chess that evening and he was allowed to continue this entertainment during his confinement at the fort. ...

games such as badminton, tennis, ping pong, and chess are popular with large segments of the population. Baseball, introduced during American presence ...

Image:denver 16th st.jpg|Chess players on the 16th Street Mall ==History== [[Image:Pd james w denver.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Former Kansas Territorial ...

residence; it turned out that these were a chess set and a pool table. Enthusiastic voters, although lacking any clear-cut idea of his views, ...

[[Image:Begin Brzezinski Camp David Chess.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin engages Carter national security adviser ...

JPG|thumb|350px|Christian and Moor playing chess, from The Book of Games of Alfonso X, c. 1285]] While the Muslim conquest of much of Spain and ...

and by the aesthetics of his earlier friend, and chess partner, artist Marcel Duchamp. One of his most striking visual pieces is the 1969 work Not Wanting ...

handles and castle-like objects (similar to the chess set of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt). The realistic portrayal of human beings and animals suggests ...

02a00120 Lévi-Strauss in wonderland: Playing chess with unusual cats. The story of lynx]. American Ethnologist 23(4): 902. Retrieved December 12, 2008. ...

* [http://LCoat.tripod.com/leytpage.htm Leyte Gulf Naval Chess Game, a free, educational boardgame of the battle, to print off, assemble, and play] ...

messages to him, and he devised a code for playing chess with the neighboring inmate. Spending much time writing, he focused on the revolutionary potential ...

media gathering involving the four arts: qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting. ===Ritual use of the qin=== The guqin was also played in a ritual ...

Raton, Florida. With a team known as "Project Chess," they built the IBM PC, launched on August 12 1981. Although not cheap, at a base price ...

swimming, and to some extent table tennis and chess. ==Notes== == References == * Banac, Ivo. The National question in Yugoslavia: origins, history ...

a fountain area, a children's lagoon, a chess plaza, a light and sound presentation, and the Quirino Grandstand. Another famous open space ...

has produced a number of famous tennis players. Chess is a favorite pastime, and a sport that has been dominated by Russians in the post-war (1945 ...

soccer, basketball, volleyball, track, bowling, and chess. ==Notes== == References == * Ghubār, Ghulām Muḥammad, and Sherief A. Fayez. Afghanistan ...

(hookah). Sometimes they play board games, cards or chess. ===Marriage and the family=== [[Image:Umayyad Mosque-CourtyardEW.jpg|thumb|right|350px ...

boxing, judo, karate, athletics, table tennis, and chess. Serbia and Montenegro were represented by a single football team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup ...

handball, basketball, women’s basketball, karate, chess, and boxing. Sarajevo hosted the 14th Winter Olympics in February 1984. ==References== ...

Chess tradition was highlighted by the 1914 international tournament, partially funded by the Tsar, in which the title "Grandmaster" ...

In recent times, tennis has gained popularity. Chess, commonly held to have originated in India, is also gaining popularity with the rise of the ...

during this period. For example, Persians imported chess from India and changed the game's name from chaturanga to chatrang. In exchange, Persians ...

Chinese), xiangqi, mahjong, and more recently chess, are also played at a professional level. [[File:Beijing national stadium.jpg|thumb|right ...

The first official world chess champion, Wilhelm Steinitz was from the Austrian Empire. ==Notes== ==References== * Beller, Steven. A Concise History ...

rally tournaments. Also, traditional sports like chess, backgammon, polo, and wrestling are popular. == Notes == ==References== * Batmanglij, ...

military matters, plant cultivation, filmmaking, and chess strategies. For 37 years, Castro publicly wore nothing but olive-green military fatigues ...