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Showing posts with label Hobbies. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

The Psychology of Collecting April 28, 2016 SHIRLEY MUELLER, MD SOURCE: Medical Economics

Friday, July 22, 2022

Miniatur Wunderland OFFICIAL VIDEO - world’s largest model railway | rai...

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

The Psychology of the Physical Bookstore Experience by Matt Johnson Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Gabe Zichermann: How [video] games make kids smarter FROM Ted Talk

It's good to hear the pro-video game argument for a change.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Armenia Introduces Chess As Mandatory School Subject Posted on Chess Daily News and Information

I learned to play chess at a very early age. But except for winning at chess, I'm not sure it had any other positive benefits, though the article suggests it can improve one's concentration, memory and calculation, among other things.
"Gharibian says playing the game of chess helps children develop responsibility and accountability for their actions."

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Outside Edge: Families can’t win the video game by By Peter Aspden FROM The Financial Times

"Who would have thought that video games, a form of entertainment until recently judged to be marginally less pernicious than glue-sniffing, would become the new bonding device for family members who have lost touch with each other?"

Friday, February 29, 2008

Chess takes the world on board By Matthew Hennessey from Asia Times

To the Soviets, chess was political.

"The Soviets set out to dominate world chess," said New York-based chess teacher and historian Christopher Maksymowicz in an interview with Policy Innovations. "It was a decree from Joseph Stalin. It was an expression of the superiority of the Soviet Union over the West, over capitalism."

Monday, September 10, 2007

Possible Chess Moves






The lines indicates a piece's control over all the squares through which the line runs. The power of a piece ends at the square the arrow indicates. For clarity, the origin of some knight moves have solid red circles. Unlike other pieces, the knight must move to the square indicated by the arrow. Other pieces can move to any square the line runs through.

As complicated as it looks, there is one important simplifying factor. The "lines of force" of chess pieces do not interfere with one another. This is unlike real physical phenomenon in which the influence of different forces on one another complicate analysis immensely. For example, the interaction of gravitational forces make the three body problem very difficult to solve.

The above diagram is based on the position below.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Chinook, the unbeatable checkers-playing computer

Below are some common board games with their English names:



Traditional checkers
Draughts in British English





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Chess Pieces
The name of the pieces from left to right are:
King, queen, bishop, knight, rook, pawn



A chess board.
Also used in checkers though the
color of the squares may differ.



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Backgammon






Monopoly







Chinese Checkers










Chinese Chess







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