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*We are thinking of adding chess playing software to Rhea. One possibility is to use the open source software "free internet chess server "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Internet_Chess_Server]. Any opinions??? -pm | *We are thinking of adding chess playing software to Rhea. One possibility is to use the open source software "free internet chess server "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Internet_Chess_Server]. Any opinions??? -pm | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:31, 9 February 2011
Contents
Chess
This is a hub page for everything related to chess. Feel free to edit!
We now have support to show chess games on a Javascript chessboard on Mediawiki articles. To find more about this feature and how to use it click here.
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. You can watch the Parham attack being used here.
- Dan Fleetwood [2], (Ph. D., Solid State Physics, M. S., Experimental Physics, B. S., Physics and Applied Math, all from Purdue University), was the 8th American to earn the International Correspondence Chess GrandMaster title, played Board 1 for the United States Correspondence Chess Olympics team in the 15th Olympiad Final (http://www.iccf-webchess.com/), and finished 8th in the 18th International Correspondence Chess Championship.
- Do you play chess? Tell us why!
Notable Chess Matches
- add link to page with your video here (create a page with your video first)
Chess Related Pages
Chess in the Curriculum
- An ECE senior design project: designing an LED chess Board.
- 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 "[3]. Any opinions??? -pm
- We add a Chess Software.
