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Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

Chess instruction launches on Android phones, and Duolingo customers with iPhones will soon be able to play chess against ...
Education Week

How Playing Chess Can Boost Academic Learning

Corrected: A previous version of this article referenced the International Chess Federation acronym as ICF. The acronym is FIDE. There are 25 million kids worldwide who play chess competitively, ...
Axios on MSN

Duolingo now lets you play chess and post scores to LinkedIn

Pittsburgh-based Duolingo announced several upgrades Tuesday to its popular learning app. The intrigue: Duolingo has moved ...
Education Week

A Chess Grandmaster Makes the Case for Teaching the Game in School

Maurice Ashley knows chess, and he enthusiastically shares that knowledge with kids who want to learn. Inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame, and the first Black person to earn the title of ...
Well+Good

If ‘The Queens Gambit’ Made You Horny for Chess, You’re Not Alone—Here’s How To Learn and 5 Gorgeous Sets To Buy

Chess is undergoing a sexy renaissance thanks to "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix. Learn the benefits of chess, where to learn to play, and sets to shop. Maybe it’s an effect of social distancing for ...
Mashable

Learn how to play chess from FIDE masters for under $100

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. Go from beginner to grandmaster with this ...
Game Rant

Famous Chess Games Every Beginner Should Study

Studying chess can be grueling for beginners, especially at first. Opening principles, endgames, mid-game tactics, pawn placement, and positional play are just some of the concepts that beginners need ...
New Haven Independent

Chess Students Learn Power Of The Pawn

So teaches Edward Trimble during an afterschool program he runs through his nonprofit S.P.O.R.T. Academy, which brought together dozens of young students at Fair Haven School this week to reflect on ...
SlashGear

DeepMind AI MuZero Can Learn AND Master Chess, Go, Atari

Today the machine learning algorithm MuZero was detailed in a feature research paper in Nature. MuZero expands on the abilities of systems like AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, and AlphaZero. Each new algorithm ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Piece Negotiations: Greenmont Elementary students learn chess lesson

Fifth-grader Owen Johnston considers his options during a game of chess Thursday at Greenmont Elementary School. Students in Kevin Mace’s STEAM class learned how to play chess this past week in ...
The New York Times

How Chess Teaches Children to Be Good

Some parents are signing their children up for chess lessons to get a break, and to teach them how to express themselves. By Lam Thuy Vo Ellis Clifton draws a grid with yellow chalk, counting each row ...