Chess Records

of the major talking pints of this debate was a chess match held in 1997 when for one of the first times a machine was able to best world chess Grandmaster, Gary Kasparov, as he was defeated by IBM’s ‘Deep Blue’. The oxford dictionary claims consciousness to be ‘the state of being aware of and responsive to one 's surroundings’, well in this case the computer was definitely responsive to the moves made by Kasparov, out of millions and millions of chess moves to consider and calculate the…

battlefield and to combat the opposing general; this is the essence of Chess. Chess is a noble two player strategy game with a reasonable skill floor yet an infinitely high skill cap. This depth leads to a highly captivating game, one where ”An outsider looking on casually might find the intensity incomprehensible. But anyone who has played the game a few times understands how it be engrossing in the extreme”(Shenk 6). The goal of Chess is to maneuver the pieces so that the opposing king is…

The aspect of college that I’m most worried about is grades. While growing up, I always believed that grades was an important part of my education, and I strived to achieve the highest grades. I was very successful in doing so in high school, and I joined honor society. I knew what I had to do to achieve those grades, but I’m worried that could change in college since I don 't know what to expect from the classes. I just hope my test anxiety doesn’t affect my performance in school. Besides…

1. Chess/endgame (1): When a game of chess starts, the end is inevitable. The outcome of the ending is already determined by the first move. It sets the course for the entire game. Hamm represents the king; the piece that holds all the power yet is extremely vulnerable at the same time. Clov is a knight; trapped in a patterned way of movement and actions. Nell and Nagg represent captured chess pieces because they cannot move. The game of chess imitates a lot of repetitious movements. This is…

A Knight’s Tale is about three friends who pursued the challenge of jousting after their master, Sir Ector, died. William Thatcher took his dead master’s armor and went on to win his first tournament. As William, Roland, and Wat went on to compete in many more tournaments, William meets Jocelyn and instantaneously falls in love with her. William Thatcher was born in the Cheapside borough of London in the early 1350’s. Even though he was not very wealthy, he had always dreamed of being a knight.…

Slate/Ethos: Hi, I am Sabrina, an executive recruiter for my Human Resources Outsourcing Company, and am going to talk about the historical fantasy book called The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye. Candidate: Nikolai Karimov, one of the main characters, is an orphan who was taken under the care of Galina Zakrevsky, a mentor for the Crown’s Game that I will elaborate on later. He grew up to be handsome, so people often wanted to do activities together. Logos: However, neither his clothes nor his low…

Outliers list all these reasons as to why some are successful over others, but in the end I still believe in hard work and determination. I wasn 't raised asian and nor am I famous at chess or basketball both of which I spent more than 10,000 hours on. I also never had a high IQ, but still was separated into a specific group of students, believed to excel. Life is honestly full surprises, if you are born within a certain month period…

Have you ever had trouble writing a paper? Well I have with every single paper I have written until now. Writing paper was certainly not easy for me but taking reading and composition 092 has benefited me in the best way by stating from the basics of writing a paper. Until I figured out the writing stages and what they can do to help me for the rest of my college career. The writing stages process has six stages which are understanding, brainstorming, outline, rough draft, revising, and…

Chess is a game that is known worldwide. According to FIDE World Chess Federation, over 160 countries are registered to be part of the FIDE. Chess is a game that is all about strategy and thinking ahead to plan out the best way to beat the opponent. Within the HBO T.V. series The Wire by David Simon, chess is used as a comparison to drug dealing, or as referenced in the series, “the game”. Just like chess, drug dealing, as portrayed in the series, is also all about strategy and planning ahead.…

For the Multimedia Project, I chose to do a board game based on the theme of Happiness. I chose to a board game because I enjoy playing board games myself. Also, drawing has always been my extracurricular passion. Last but not the least, I feel I have learned a lot about happiness this term and I hope I can share what I have learned in a fun, accessible way. The message that I am trying to get across lies in the rules of the game, where people need to have to take the right actions and improve…