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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Chess Enthusiasts Plot To Revive The Game Of Kings - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Chess Enthusiasts Plot To Revive The Game Of Kings - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

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  1. “No one thinks computers are rivals to humans anymore,” insists grandmaster Raymond Keen. “We’ve returned to the idea that chess is the touchstone of human intellect. New studies show playing chess helps fight off Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. The game is back.”


    Daniel Weil of Pentagram, the agency tasked with branding the championship, believes social changes could make chess relevant: “Chess became a phenomenon in the first wave of globalization, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when educated salon culture needed a universal marker of intelligence, of sophistication, that could cross over languages and borders. Now, in this new and much bigger globalization, chess can again play that role.”

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