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== Who plays chess? Why do you play chess?== | == Who plays chess? Why do you play chess?== | ||
* Mathematician Paul Erdos, who was a Research Associate in Purdue's mathematics department from 1943 to 1945, was a very skillful chess player [http://www.math.purdue.edu/about/purview/fall96/paul-erdos.html]. | * Mathematician Paul Erdos, who was a Research Associate in Purdue's mathematics department from 1943 to 1945, was a very skillful chess player [http://www.math.purdue.edu/about/purview/fall96/paul-erdos.html]. | ||
| − | * | + | * Purdue student Bernard Parham is a chess master and the inventor of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parham_Attack Parham Attack]. |
| − | * | + | * Do you play chess? Tell us why! |
== Notable Chess Matches == | == Notable Chess Matches == | ||
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Chess
This is a hub page for everything related to chess. Feel free to edit!
Who plays chess? Why do you play chess?
- Mathematician Paul Erdos, who was a Research Associate in Purdue's mathematics department from 1943 to 1945, was a very skillful chess player [1].
- Purdue student Bernard Parham is a chess master and the inventor of the Parham Attack.
- Do you play chess? Tell us why!
Notable Chess Matches
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Chess Related Pages
Chess in the Curriculum
- Automatic chess playing is an application of "artificial Intelligence" and "Pattern Recognition".
- See the introductory lecture of ECE662: "Pattern Recognition and decision making processes" to learn what is pattern recognition.
- If you want to learn more about pattern recognition, consider taking this Maymester course in Turkey next Spring.
Chess at School
- Chess and School violence
- Jamaican schools are introducing chess in schools to reduce violence.
- Philadelphia area schools answer to violence: use chess to teach children how to win and lose.
- Chess for K-12 Children
- In the West Lafayette Area, children as young as 4 years old are encouraged to play chess at the West Lafayette Scholastic Chess Club.
Chess on Rhea
- We are thinking of adding chess playing software to Rhea. One possibility is to use the open source software "free internet chess server "[2]. Any opinions??? -pm
