Showing posts with label chess board. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chess board. Show all posts
Friday, February 10, 2023

10 February 23

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Today (10 February) is the 27th anniversary of the first time a computer program beat a chess champion. In 1996, IBM's chess-playing com...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

21 July 22

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Yesterday (20 July) was International Chess Day (also proclaimed as World Chess Day by the United Nations in 2019). I have not played a ful...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

10 February 21

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Twenty-five years ago on this date (1996), the IBM computer system Deep Blue defeated human chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the first ro...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

2 June 20

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Happy Birthday, Jonathan Sikora! My comrade in masterminding the Blackboard course management system for Eastern Kentucky University chose m...
Monday, February 10, 2020

10 February 20

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Math for today: 10 X 2 (February) = 20. It's National Umbrella Day! And today's weather in central Kentucky requires me to use one! ...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

11 April 19

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I've needed an occasion to wear this chessboard tie, and I uncovered the birthday of chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov this Saturday (13 ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

20 July 17

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Today is International Chess Day! It's also the 48th anniversary of the first human steps on the Moon.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

31 May 16

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Happy Birthday, Charles Woolum! Charles was my Blackboard-support comrade several years ago, and he now works with Canvas (another learning ...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

23 May 15

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I hardly ever wear a tie on Saturday, but today is a very special party day -- we are celebrating my father (in-law) Bob Wollenweber's N...
Monday, March 9, 2015

9 March 15

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Time to play my chess board tie, on the birthday of grandmaster Bobby Fischer (1943-2008). Just to keep my documentation up to date, I'...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

20 July 14

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Today is International Chess Day.
Monday, February 17, 2014

17 February 14

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On this date in 1996, IBM's chess-playing computer "Deep Blue" resigned in the sixth game of a tournament, giving human Garry ...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

20 June 13

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Happy Almost-Summer-Solstice Day! Summer begins officially sometime tonight, 1:04 a.m. EDT (Friday) which is 11:04 p.m. MDT and 10:04 p.m. P...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

17 February 13

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This is the first chance I've had to wear my "chess" tie. February 17, 1996 marked the conclusion of the first official chess ...