If chess is typically the figure, for Simic, it's the ground: chess is more real than reality. Chess is an abstract strategy tabletop game, played across a grid, with no hidden information-that is, unlike a card game where other players don't know what's in their opponents' hands, all the components of play are always equally available to both players.
Read MoreOver the last 30 years, teacher-turned-principal Salome Thomas-EL has found success leveraging the game of chess to teach math and history at the elementary and middle school levels, writes Kate Stoltzfus for ASCD. But chess is not just about rote academics, says Thomas-EL: The game boosts student confidence, teaches them critical thinking and problem solving skills, and engages them behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively, along with providing a host of other benefits.
Read MoreChess has a long history at MIT that began decades before 62 million households tuned in to Netflix's miniseries "The Queen's Gambit." Though the show ranked as Netflix's No. 1 in 63 countries within its first month, and sparked a global surge in the sale of chess sets and books, several members of MIT's chess club say, with a laugh, that they haven't seen it yet.
Read MoreA retired special education teacher recently named coordinator of the San Francisco Archdiocese's African American ethnic ministry sees chess as an academic, social and spiritual game changer for students today.
Read MoreLearning chess is fun and builds important educational skills.
Read MoreDuring a brainstorming discussion with a colleague on the value of entropy in machine learning models, specifically the models used in threat intelligence work, I mentioned that many of the threat intelligence models in use today seem to overemphasize the pattern recognition aspect of threat intelligence through the egregious use of algorithms.
Read MoreChess is a game that takes a long time to finish, with slow but critically thought out moves, and lots of strategy involved.
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