Chess

Check and Mate

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players.

Today, the most recognized chess tournaments for individual competition include the Linares chess tournamentand the Tata Steel chess tournament. The largest team chess tournament is the Chess Olympiad, in which players compete for their country's team in the same fashion as the Olympic Games. Since the 1950s, chess computers have even begun entering the tournament scene.

Most chess tournaments are organized and ruled according to the World Chess Federation(FIDE) handbook, which offers guidelines and regulations for conducting tournaments. Chess tournaments are mainly held in either round-robin style, Swiss system style or elimination style to determine a winning party.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_tournament>,  6 July 2015

Hackaathon

A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfestor codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on softwareprojects.[1] Occasionally, there is a hardware component as well. Hackathons typically last between a day and a week. Some hackathons are intended simply for educational or social purposes, although in many cases the goal is to create usable software. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, which can include the programming language used, the operating system, an application, an API, or the subject and the demographic group of the programmers. In other cases, there is no restriction on the type of software being created.

The term "hackathon" has also been used as a term for more general "focused innovation efforts" that includes non-coders and community members, such as in the Palo Alto civic hackathon event Hack Palo Alto.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon>

Sports

Chris Borland Early Football Retirement

First Prominent NFL Player to Retire Due to Fears of Inherent Head Trauma

On March 16, 2015, Borland announced his retirement from the NFL citing concern of head trauma. Borland received a $617,436 signing bonus when he inked a four-year rookie deal with the Niners coming out of college. He'll be returning $463,077 to the team assuming his three-quarters number is spot on.

Christopher Borland (born December 26, 1990[1]) is a former American football linebacker who played for the San Francisco 49ersof the National Football League(NFL). He played college football at Wisconsin, and was drafted by the 49ers in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Borland> 7July2015