Sentences with phrase «looking at chess»

Whether he was looking at chess grandmasters, virtuoso violinists, world - class surgeons or sports stars, Gladwell found the same thing.

«A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight» (13:14) profiles the real Robert Katende, with an interview of him (subtitled to clarify his accent), looks at his chess teaching program, and recreations of his childhood experiences.

Ripstone Games have announced an exclusive first look at Chess Ultra, next week at Gamescom and teased a picture of the game running on Switch.

Not exact matches

«Play games (Scrabble, bridge, chess, Go, Battleship, Connect 4, doesn't matter),» suggests Xie (for a ninja - level brain boost, exercise your working memory by trying to play without looking at the board).

For a strange and promising parallel, just look at the world of chess, where computer training has raised the bar for human players.

The research, led by Michigan State psychologist Zachary Hambrick, combed through six previous studies looking at the achievement and practice history of more than 1,000 chess players.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

Management appears to be looking for specific chess pieces rather than expecting a jack of all trades (master of none) players (or at least just expecting that from the DPs).

Hollywood producers and magazine editors love tales of inner - city kids defeating private - school students in chess tournaments, but often, when you look a little more closely at the triumphs, they aren't quite as inspiring as they originally seemed.

One attempt even included a morning milling around a chess tournament at Whitney Young High School, making eye contact with teachery - looking types, when I mistakenly thought she'd suggested we meet there.

We look at the contents of the July issue of Scientific American magazine, the last under outgoing Editor in - Chief John Rennie, including an article by moon explorer Harrison Schmitt, a piece on the fight against superbugs, a report on the potential of biofuels such as grassoline, and a recollection of the pernicious effects of chess!

We look at the contents of the July issue of Scientific American magazine, the last under outgoing Editor in Chief John Rennie, including an article by moon explorer Harrison Schmitt, a piece on the fight against superbugs, a report on the potential of biofuels such as grassoline, and a recollection of the pernicious effects of chess!

So AI researchers looked primarily at problems that people called hard, like playing chess, but they didn't get very far on problems people found easy.

When we look at a game like chess, we say, «Well, yes, of course computers do well because it's a well - defined game — the rules, the moves, the goals.»

Another way to look at it, Billinge said, is by thinking of a chess game with kings, bishops, and knights filling the board so none can move.

At EPRI, the Fast Simulation and Modeling project is developing faster - than - real - time, look - ahead simulations to anticipate problems — analogous to a master chess player evaluating his or her options several moves ahead.

CHESS will soar above Earth's atmosphere to look at the ultraviolet light from a bright star — light that is blocked by the atmosphere and can't be seen from the ground.

Hello, I'm looking for the lady of my life, To be come friends and more, I like walks in the parks, Going out now and than to diner, looking at movies, Going Shopping, Taking Bus trip, And short tours in Different states, I enjoy reading the good book, Playing chess,, ext....

There are only so many star - studded red - carpet premieres — or for that matter, wonky lo - fi black - and - white video movies about vintage supernerds; we're looking at you, Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess!

Take a look at the one where they install a a chess app from the Google Play Store, then play it.

And yet if we zoom out to look at the many games in the world, we see that the two sides of Chess are so similar as to be virtually indistinguishable when compared to two races in Starcraft, two characters in Street Fighter, two decks in Magic: The Gathering, or two armies in Chess 2.

Their skill at manipulating and «coaching» their computers to look very deeply into positions effectively counteracted the superior chess understanding of their grandmaster opponents and the greater computational power of other participants.