When I Was Your Age…

OK, so yesterday was my birthday, and it passed without a blog post.  Honestly, my memory isn’t what it used to be, so the day was quite far along before I remembered that it was my special day.
At my not too advanced age, I can’t tell my kids much about the hardships of life when [...]

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Spring Break Scholastic Chess Championships

Christopher, Susan, and I played in the Global Concepts Charter School  Chess Club  ”Spring Break Scholastic Chess Tournament” this Saturday.  I have been looking for some time for tournaments where they could play other kids, and this one worked out well.  The timing of the tournament was perfect, and the entry fee of $5.00 included [...]

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Some April Fool’s Links, and One that Isn’t

Believing what you read on the Internet is a problem, even when it’s not April 1.  Here are some interesting links from today:
A.  Google Solves Chess – Chess will never be the same again.  Until now, many mathematicians claimed it wasn’t possible to ‘solve’ chess due to the exponentially large number of possible games (10^120).  [...]

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