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    Past, Present, and Future: Artificial Intelligence vs Human Intelligence Since of the technological era, people have experienced different change of lifestyles because the human´s needs have increased through over time. Consequently, technology has taken different ways: robots, search engines, and social media since the last Industrial Revolution. Therefore, people have been concerned with those changes that are happening now and are going to happen in the future. That is why in his essay, “Better

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    these values embedded within the young chess player, Josh began to show everyone who he really is. One of the many challenges that Josh faced and overcame was the constant pressure from his father and his chess teacher. After learning that his son was quite the chess player, the father signs Josh up with a teacher to further enhance his abilities. While this may seem harmless, it began to take a toll on Josh. The boy no longer wanted to participate in chess due to new ideas and systems implemented

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    When you were young you may have played the board game Monopoly. Monopoly is a game to learn about wealth through purchasing real estate. Each player chooses a symbol to move about the playing board while buying and/or trading property title deeds. When the player has a monopoly, all of the title deeds with the same color, they can then develop the property by purchasing four green houses which finally, hopefully, becomes one red hotel. Players whose symbol lands on an owned property must pay the

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    quite feisty. Waverly Jong was a prodigy at the age of nine. She ruled chess on the streets of San Fransico. Stubborn enough to quit for day, but too soft to make it on her own. Two different beings, from a folktale and from the womb of her mother. They're on different paths but it seems as if they're spirit merges as one. Waverly Jong was born in a cozy home in San Fransico. One christmas year she discovered the game of chess. Long hours at the library, books upon books, knowledge being poured

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    eventually, though neither of us knew it at the time, chess games.” Through this new interest in chess, Waverly will learn to hone her mental skills along with her playing skills.

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    The novel opens as Chaol, a royal guard, is retrieving Celaena, an assassin, from Endovier, the concentration/slave camp she has been in for the past 350 days. He then takes her to Prince Dorian, who has summoned the assassin to see if she would be capable of competing for him. The competition is to acquire the next King’s Champion. The King’s Champion basically does the dirty work for the ruler. The king is a arrogant, nasty man who has been dominating kingdoms throughout the land of Erilea. He

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    The film, The Seventh Seal, successfully deals with the topic of chivalry and justice. Chivalry and justice are shown through the actions of Antonius Block and his attempt to save the actor and his family. After Block loses the chess game with Death, he strategically knocks over the game board to distract Death from the family escaping. Block sacrifices himself to save the actor’s family because he knows that they are good people that don’t deserve to die. Chivalry and justice are both demonstrated

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    study of chess reflects on a character studies of its players. Those who wish to advance in chess fall back on research and games played by their predecessors. “Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) first not by chronology, but rather because he figured out how the human plays a role in chess. Quite famously, he said "In life we are all duffers." Lasker approached chess with a pessimism that evoked the following question - why is "chess player" an occupation? Lasker made the observation that a chess player is

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    Interschool chess tournament of HPC. HELLO this is a thrilling article about a very old board game being played in a college that is 102 years old and the game being ... Chess a game even older than this school and the not so old interschool chess tournament the Hauraki Plains College participates in. HPC has participated in the Interschool Chess Tournament since 2008 and has also holds inner-school tournament every term that is available to all years but this article is mainly about the interschool

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    Philosopher’s Stone. On this journey, the three children come across a chess game to which one of them has to sacrifice their life to allow the others to progress in trying to save the stone. When Ron and Harry get on top of the giant chess piece and play the magic game, “Ron contemplates their final move. He looks to the white queen chess piece and says softly, ‘it’s the only way… I’ve got to be taken.’ ‘NO!’ Harry and Hermione [shout]. ‘That’s chess!’ [snaps] Ron, “You’ve got to make some sacrifices!’”(Rowling

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