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In the Intercontinental Chess Championship for Prisoners, Ecuador will play Argentina, Colombia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and the United States.

Forty-three teams from 31 countries made up of four inmates were registered to participate, on October 13 and 14, in the first Intercontinental Tournament for Prisoners, organized by the International Chess Federation (FIDE, for its acronym in French).

The tournament is part of the Chess for Freedom program and the International Day of Education in Prisons.

Chess provides a pathway for incarcerated people to access education; They find positive use of their free time and learn skills that will help them transform their lives. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich said about the program in release.

The 43 registered teams were divided into six groups, in which, on the thirteenth day, they would compete in an all-on-all system. The best two teams in each group go to the next stage, which will be played on the 14th, the 12 qualified teams will be divided into two groups of 6, and the first team from each group will face each other in the final for the title.

Organized by FIDE and the Cook County Sheriffs Office in Chicago, United States, the tournament is open to teams of four, without age and gender, who are in any correctional facility.

Each country can participate with a team, but can attend with additional formations, up to a maximum of three, from womens or juvenile prisons (under 20 years old). These are the cases of Trinidad and Tobago, Russia, Ukraine and Norway, which have a tripartite representation.

Ecuador will participate in this chess tournament, which belongs to the second group consisting of Argentina, Colombia, Jamaica, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. This tour will start on Wednesday October 13th at 17:00 CET (10:00 local time).

The games will be played online through the chess platform Chess.com. Each player will get 10 minutes, with an increment of five seconds each time they move a piece.

The tournament will be broadcast live on Youtube from FIDE. (Dr)

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Posted: Oct 8, 2021 / 08:44 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 8, 2021 / 08:44 PM EDT

NORTH AUGUSTA, SC (WJBF) Randall Barrett was in North Augusta for some bike riding. He didnt know Saturday is National Chess Day, but its not his game, doesnt have the patience.

I like checkers because its bip, bip, bip. like a bicycle ride, he said.

Chess does take a lot of patience and skill. North Augusta has both, but it seems Chess isnt the go-to board game.

Oh checkers all day, said John Hollis from North Augusta.

Checkers Im a checkers guy, said James Key.

Im more of a Candyland type of guy, said Devin Morris.

45 Years ago, President Gerald Ford declared the second Saturday in October National Chess Day.

An idea originally pushed by the then Regional Vice President of the US Chess Federation one William Dodgen from North Augusta SC the true force for National Chess Day.

I think thats pretty cool I didnt know that, said Emily Morris.

So, with North Augustas influence on National Chess Day, I bet youre ready to be like Boris Spassky

Naw Im still a checkers guy, said James.

Well checkmate.

Out There Somewhere in North Augusta George Eskola WJBF NewsChannel 6.

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PAHRUMP, Nev. (KLAS) The Nye County Sheriffs Office is searching for a wanted fugitive who is accused of fleeing custody and attempting to run over a justice court bailiff.

The Sheriffs Office says the incident occurred on Monday, Oct. 11 when Terrance Chess was identified at the Pahrump Justice Court complex.

Chess had a warrant for his arrest for eluding and battery.

When a Pahrump Justice bailiff attempted to take Chess into custody, officers say he fought off the bailiffs and ran into the parking lot.

As a bailiff attempted to apprehend Chess, he attempted to run the bailiff over in a maroon SUV, eventually leaving the scene in the vehicle.

Chess is wanted on the two prior warrants, as well as new charges of assault with a deadly weapon on an officer and resisting arrest.

Anyone with information is asked to call Nye County Sheriffs Office at 775-751-7000.

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Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more intelligent and more and more human-like.

A lot of things have changed in modern chess compared to the past, but the most important change is the hegemony of computers. Take Magnus Carlsen who, over the past decade, has been the uncontested world chess champion he cant really claim to be the best chess player, only the best human player.

Chess algorithms have long surpassed the human ability to play the game, for a very simple reason: they can memorize and calculate simple tasks far better than we can. But when AIs started entering the scene, chess algos were also in for a revolution.

Traditionally, chess algorithms were trained in a very straightforward way: they were taught the rules of the game, fed a huge database of games, taught how to calculate, and off they went. But Googles AlphaZero, for instance, takes a very different approach.AlphaZero has become, arguably, the best chess-playing entity in the world without studying a single human game. Instead, it was only taught the rules of the game and allowed to play against itself over and over. Intriguingly, this not only enabled it to achieve remarkable prowess, but also to develop a style of its own. Unlike traditional algorithms which play very concrete, grinding type of games, AlphaZero tends to play in a very conceptual and creative way (though the word creative will surely annoy some readers). For instance, AlphaZero would often sacrifice a piece with no immediate reward in sight it itself doesnt necessarily calculate all the outcomes. Instead of playing moves that it can fully calculate to be better, which is what most algorithms do, AlphaZero plays moves that seem better.

Its a surprisingly human way to approach the game, although many of AlphaZeros moves seem distinctly inhuman.

Now, Googles researchers have taken things to the next level with MuZero.

Unlike AlphaZero, MuZero wasnt even told the rules of chess. It wasnt allowed to make any illegal moves, but it was allowed to ponder them. This allows the algorithm to think in a more human way, considering threats and possibilities even when they might not be apparent or possible at a given time. For instance, the threat of losing an exposed piece might always be present in the back of a human players mind, even though it is not threatened at the moment.

Researchers say that this also allows MuZero to develop an internal intuition regarding the rules of the game.

This led to remarkably good performances. Although the details that researchers presented are sparse, they claim that MuZero achieved the same performance as AlphaZero. But it gets even better.

Researchers didnt only train the engine in chess, they also trained it in go, shogi, and 57 Atari games commonly used in this sort of study.

The most impressive results came from Go, a game that is unfathomably more complex than chess. MuZero slightly exceeded the performance of AlphaZero despite using less overall computation, which seems to indicate that MuZero has a deeper understanding of the game and the positions it was playing. Similar performances were reported in the Atari games, where MuZero outperformed state-of-the-art engines in 42 out of 57 games.

Of course, there is much more to this than just chess, Go, or PacMan. There are very concrete lessons that can be applied in artificial intelligence in a very practical setting.

Many of the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have been based on either high-performance planning, wrote the researchers. In this paper we have introduced a method that combines the benefits of both approaches. Our algorithm, MuZero, has both matched the superhuman performance of high-performance planning algorithms in their favored domains logically complex board games such as chess and Go and outperformed state-of-the-art model-free [reinforcement learning] algorithms in their favored domains visually complex Atari games.

The study can be read in a preprint on ArXiv.

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Tanitoluwa Tani Adewumi has battled a challenging immigrant experience on his way to becoming one of chess best young players.

Black people eventually come for every sport in which were not traditionally known to engage. Now you can add chess to that list.

At just 11-years-old, Tanitoluwa Tani Adewumi is on deck to become the youngest-ever chess grandmaster, the highest title a player can attain after becoming a national master earlier this year. There are currently just over 1,700 grandmasters in the world. After turning 11 in September, Adewumi, has just under a year to break the record of 12-year-old grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra.

In order to earn the title of grandmaster, Adewumi will have to achieve three grandmaster norms in a chess tournament and earn a FIDE (Federation Internationale des Echecs) rating of 2,500.

National Chess Master Tanitoluwa Adewumi, 10, is shown on the cover of his April 2020 book, My Name Is Tani and I Believe in Miracles.

Im aggressive, I like to attack, Adewumi told CNN of his style of play. Its just the way I think in general: I want to checkmate my opponent as fast as I can.

Adewumis fortunes are a sharp reversal for he and his family, who fled northern Nigeria for New York City in 2017 due to fear of extremist group Boko Haram. They were living in a homeless shelter when Adewumi joined a chess club at his local public school, something he wouldnt have been able to afford had the registration fee not been waived.

When hes done with school, hes home practicing for seven hours. On his off days, he pores over chess for up to 10 hours. His parents do what they can to cultivate Temis chess skills, including driving him to tournaments and providing him whatever resources they can to help him sharpen his skills.

Adewumis wins are racking up, but its the New York State Scholastic Primary Championship he won in 2019 at age eight that provoked a New York Times column that brought attention to Adewumi and motivated people to donate to his struggling family.

Tanitoluwa Tani Adewumi (Go Fund Me)

One family, they paid for a years rent in Manhattan, one family gave us in 2019 a brand-new Honda, and the Saint Louis Chess Club in Missouri invited the family and the coaches to come and pay a visit, Adewumis father, real estate agent Kayode Adewumi, told CNN Sport. A lot of people really helped us, a lot of people gave us financial (support) and money they donated money for us to get out from the shelter.

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Kayode started a GoFundMe page for his son in April 2019 following his championship win to help the family get on their feet. The page is still live and now collects money for the Tanitoluwa Adewumi Foundation, which helps support underprivileged children the world over.

The page has garnered more than $256K, thousands more than his original $50K goal, with donations still trickling in.

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