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'Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess' (CCN Magazine)

The Computer History Museum, the world's largest history museum dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the artifacts and stories of the information age, will celebrate a new physical and online exhibit, "Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess," at a special lecture presentation, 7 p.m., Thursday, September 8, and at a public open house, 1-5 p.m., Saturday, September 10.

According to John Toole, the Museum's executive director and CEO, this marks the first new exhibit since the institution relocated to its home at 1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View, Calif., two years ago.

"The topic of chess is a fascinating way for visitors of diverse backgrounds to learn about computing history. Chess resonates with the general public as a difficult problem to solve for people and machines alike. From this launching point, visitors can explore some important software concepts -- abstract and traditionally challenging topics to explain," said Toole. "For the Museum, this exhibit is our 'opening move' since it serves as a prototype of others that we will develop throughout the next phases of our evolution."

Player was a trailblazer in women's chess (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Alina Markowski delved into chess in the 1950s, at a time when women in the sport were uncommon.

She heard remarks such as "You're a good player, for a girl."

On occasion, she said, "You could see, if a player lost to me, how disgusted he was that he had lost to a woman."

This stoked a fire within her to promote women in chess through writing articles, organizing women's teams and tournaments and volunteering time to help a number of chess organizations as secretary, treasurer and more.

'Mystery' keeps chess whiz going (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Chess is more than a game to Gautam Narula.

"It's impossible to know everything, so there's always some mystery about it," he says. "You keep learning."

Gautam, who turned 12 on July 24, began learning from his father at age 5. At 7, he joined a chess club. Earlier this year, he began tournament play.

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