Media comments on chess
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Well the Russian word for the rook (ladya) does mean "boat" ....Kevin Thurlow wrote:So chess is like sailing on a table?
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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[quote="Kevin Thurlow"]Cartoons.../quote]
I once saw one - in The Spectator I think - where a bunch of men are gathered around a table watching two other guys play chess.
"I'm keen to see this new variation in the Sicilian defence that Bloggs has found" says one onlooker to another.
Under the table Bloggs has a pistol with silencer attached pointed at his opponent.
Pretty sophisticated joke for a lay audience I thought.
I once saw one - in The Spectator I think - where a bunch of men are gathered around a table watching two other guys play chess.
"I'm keen to see this new variation in the Sicilian defence that Bloggs has found" says one onlooker to another.
Under the table Bloggs has a pistol with silencer attached pointed at his opponent.
Pretty sophisticated joke for a lay audience I thought.
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And more in today's Evening Standard. He has this to say about chess:Christopher Kreuzer wrote:I missed Matthew's follow-up comment, and never followed the link, so only just realised this article about a multi-million pound deal involving an AI company founded by Demis Hassabis had been pointed out by Mick. There is a follow-up article here:Mick Norris wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25908379
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25927797
"Why has Google bought an AI company?"
BBC News - 28 January 2014
"I think I ended up channelling my very early years into chess because it was something I was good at that my parents could understand. Chess and games give you a lot of skills you can transfer to business or AI, but I always regarded it more as training. It was too narrow to spend your entire brain on for your entire life."
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I was also interviewed by The Financial Times about Demis. I don't know when the piece will appear.
The whole matter has raised a great deal of interest. Like Demis, I made the point about chess providing transferable skills.
The whole matter has raised a great deal of interest. Like Demis, I made the point about chess providing transferable skills.
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From time to time, you make the point that chess is rare or unique in paying cash prizes to children. The Evening Standard interview notes that the profit from a chess tournament was reinvested in a computer, thereby setting up one of his careers.Stewart Reuben wrote: The whole matter has raised a great deal of interest. Like Demis, I made the point about chess providing transferable skills.
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Stewart, it's in today's FT. You are quoted briefly. Free registration is required to read it online.Stewart Reuben wrote:I was also interviewed by The Financial Times about Demis. I don't know when the piece will appear.
The whole matter has raised a great deal of interest. Like Demis, I made the point about chess providing transferable skills.
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The Evening Standard piece claimed that it was the only interview being given by Demis. Presumably the Financial Times piece is based on talking to others? Demis was active in Cambridge University Chess Club at around the same time at me (overlapping by a couple of years, he played in a few Varsity matches). This has also reminded me of his exploits at the Mind Games Olympiads when they were in London (well, him and his brother). Seeing the references to chess in the media coverage has been interesting.
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The video for Chloe Howl's new song 'Rumour' features chess . Interesting.
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From the short story "Jokester" by Isaac Asimov.What was needed was a rare type of intuition; the same faculty of mind (only much more intensified) that made a grandmaster of chess. A mind was needed of the sort that could see through the quadrillions of chess patterns to find the one best move, and do it in a matter of minutes.
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From the Guardian today:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/quiz/2014/feb/07/daily-quiz-7-february-2014 wrote:6. Which sporting trophy is named after the 1923 and 1934 British chess champion?
Davis Cup
Stanley Cup
Thomas Cup
Ryder Cup
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And of course there's also Ray Keene's regular column in Private Eye.
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Kasparov comments on the Winter Olympics, comparing Sochi 2014 to Berlin 1936.
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I absolutely refuse to believe it - until a non-white, gay (of any sex) speed skater or downhill racer starts striking gold.
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I got around to reading 'THE CHESS PIECES'
It is set on the Isle of Lewis and the pieces are involved in the plot, but not the game of chess itself.
It is set on the Isle of Lewis and the pieces are involved in the plot, but not the game of chess itself.