The 2022 Junior Speed Chess Championship that kicked off on 31st March is all set to showcase the brilliance of the radiant stars under 20 in the world of chess. The qualifier rounds took off on March 31 as the prime event and the finals are scheduled for April 11 and May 13 respectively.
St.Louis in Missouri has often topped the news headlines for all the wrong reasons. Painted in dark undertones of racial disharmony, the midwest city’s transition into the chess capital of the world is both intriguing and inspiring. Once infamous for agitations between the black and the white communities, today St.Louis is drawing a different game with black and white squares.
When Netflix replaced HBO with a bang in the 2021 Emmy awards, seldom did the streaming services giant anticipate the smoke that would shroud one of its most popular shows in controversy. Mid-September, Netflix bagged as many as 44 awards in the 2021 Emmy Awards sidelining the reigning title holder HBO. The popular Netflix shows The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit grabbed the most number of awards.
The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the Fourth event of the Champions Chess Tour, will be held on March 13-21. The World Champion has teamed up with Breakthrough Initiatives to commemorate the 60th anniversary of man’s first flight to outer space. The organisation that is driven by a quest for investigating the fundamentals of life beyond Earth is funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, headed by philanthropists and tech investors Yuri and Julia Milner.
On February 10, 1996, the history of chess took a sharp turn, when for the first time a computer beat a grandmaster, the then chess champion at his own game.
IBM’s prodigy-computer Deep Blue beat the legendary Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match. It was a moment when machine intelligence wallowed in its glory!
How about an interesting trip to the behind-the-scenes fun facts of Chess, the ancient “game of thrones”?
Of all the games, Chess has that intriguing aura about it that makes the players the proud participants, the audience awe-struck, and the “illiterates”, well, embarrassed (?). The medieval game that is rooted in our “very own” rich soil has the world in its brainy fist today.
The outbreak of a pandemic has given us a generous scoop of home-based e-learning. Thanks to the ever-evolving technologies and access to high-speed internet, online learning is flourishing and could soon be a substitute to traditional classroom teaching. But does e-learning facilitate the overall progress of a child?
With the restricted interaction and physical activity of e-platforms, how far can they modulate cognitive skills in children? Can brain stimulators like mind games that develop cognitive capabilities in children be taught effectively online?
As the pandemic resulted in a pause to classrooms for over 1.2 billion children globally it gave birth to the rise of e-learning and online classes on digital platforms. Within the span of a few months the Covid -19 has changed the education system and acted as a catalyst for educational institutions worldwide to find innovative solutions to keep the learning steady.
Two months in this lockdown and we are already disturbed, stressed and anxious. The unprecedented circumstances have only made this a turmoil for all. The children are the worst hit as their physical and mental state is compromised. For physical exercise, an adult can take up aerobics and yoga, and even talk to close ones about one’s state of mind.
Sounds as interesting as it is. While the Rubik Cube was invented in 1974, people still believe it is a genius thought captured in a box. Though the interesting part is, the inventor Erno Rubik took almost a month to solve it for the first time.
Rewind to the 90’s and the nostalgia rushes back to your mind. The Jetsons and transformers promised us a very different picture, and we thought robots would rule the world. Either as friends or foes. Well, we can’t see that happening anytime soon, though the prominence of robots have increased since the past decade. It is the nature of the idea that entrusted the ideas of robots and humans in our head and we started developing such earthly companions for ourselves.
Don’t fade in nostalgia already. Yes we do agree those times were great but a lot has changed since then. Look around along with your age, there are a thousand other things that have transformed, for better or for worse, that’s a never ending debate. What’s particularly applauding is the course of learning. It has changed and only for good. No more log books to fill and spend 9 hours inside concrete walls. Knowledge and education have broken those cages and now are free of to be explored even outside school.
It is often believed, chess is a game of trial and error. It is not defined by any single pathway that would lead you success. Although, these are true, chess also means learning from others’ mistakes. So, do people having greater IQ score, are successful in chess than others? That’s not true. Chess is a game that improves both IQ and EQ, simultaneously. You need not be clever but act smart, learning tricks in chess could help your win those games that gives you a hinge.
This is known to be one of the most game changing positions. Control over the centre. Along with many other principles, the books for the beginners talk about the basic opening principles and one of them that ought to be in the list is, to progress our pieces to the centre of the board, early in the game.
