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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 ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- ===Chess=== In 1894, Binet conducted one of the first psychological studies into ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 07:14, 20 July 2023
- ===The Chess years=== In 1960, James signed a recording contract with Chess Records. The ...20 KB (2,949 words) - 04:39, 22 March 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- Records (which would later evolve into Chess Records) featured Waters ... his fortunes gradually began to wane as Chess Records turned their attention ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- himself, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records. Berry thought ... In 1966, Berry left Chess Records, moving to the Mercury label. The ...20 KB (3,002 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- 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) ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 17:34, 13 February 2024
- | Label = Chess | Associated_acts = | URL = www.bluesheaven ... for Chicago's premier blues label, Chess Records, in its heyday during ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- set in informal ways such as playing chess or holding animals, since ... 1554, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna), The Chess Game (1555, Museum Narowe ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 22:03, 30 January 2023
- dances, and clubs, and was ultimately signed to the Chess subsidiary, Checkmate Records, releasing its first record, the Reeves-led "I'll Let ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess ...53 KB (7,890 words) - 08:45, 16 November 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 13:23, 1 August 2022
- traditional strategy games like computer chess, and various video games. ... written by Christopher Strachey and a chess-playing program written by ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- cousin, Roquel Davis, The Aims signed with Chess Records in 1956, changing ... Four Tops endured unsuccessful tenures at Chess, Red Top, Riverside Records ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- 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 ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- 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 (9,909 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- 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) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- 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
- 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 ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- most classical board games including go and chess. Many games studied by game ... game. Perfect information games include chess, go, mancala, and arimaa. ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- mathematics and how to play the game of chess. His works were widely published throughout Europe, and some were later translated into Latin ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Distance is a numerical description of the separation between objects or points at a given moment in time. In physics or everyday discussion ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
- of a major Go (Asian board game resembling chess) match in 1938, on which Kawabata had actually reported for the Mainichi newspaper chain. It ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- labels with major marketing operations, such as Chess and RPM. In 1951, Phillips recorded Jackie Brenston's “Rocket 88” (with Ike Turner on ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:58, 23 December 2022
