Final Standings - Team Cup 2015 - InfiniChess.com

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Final Standings

Rank	Team Name	Engine Version	Points	Prizes
1	Pure Chess	Stockfish 6 (Mod)	62.5	€ 6000
2-4	Cryptic Heroes	Cryptic Heroes 2.7	61.0	€ 2000
2-4	German Tigers	Komodo kt-1365.00	61.0	€ 2000
2-4	Freestyle Chess Superstars	Stockfish-6-bmi2	61.0	€ 2000
5	Cryptic Warriors	Cryptic Heroes 2.7 A	59.0
6	Team Sicilian	Komodo 8	55.0
7	Infinity Best Friends	Houdini 4	49.5
8	The Skynet	Houdini 4	39.0

Players Ranking

Player	Team	Engine	Points / Prizes
Gamelover	Pure Chess	Stockfish 6 (Mod)	17.5    € 4800
Sandford	Cryptic Warriors	Cryptic Heroes 2.7 A	17.0    € 3600
Asadali	Cryptic Warriors	Cryptic Heroes 2.7 A	16.5
Wolle	German Tigers	Komodo kt-1365.00	16.5    € 2400
eatan	Pure Chess	Stockfish 6 (Mod)	16.0
akhtar	Cryptic Heroes	Cryptic Heroes 2.7	16.0
maximus	Freestyle Chess Superstars	Stockfish-6-bmi2	16.0
Murx	German Tigers	Komodo kt-1365.00	15.5
Ultra-d	Freestyle Chess Superstars	Stockfish-6-bmi2	15.0
Longin	German Tigers	Komodo kt-1365.00	15.0
Spaghetti_Chess	Freestyle Chess Superstars	Stockfish-6-bmi2	15.0
DracoDaatson	Freestyle Chess Superstars	Stockfish-6-bmi2	15.0
zor	Cryptic Heroes	Cryptic Heroes 2.7	15.0
Zorchamp	Cryptic Heroes	Cryptic Heroes 2.7	15.0
ashajju	Cryptic Heroes	Cryptic Heroes 2.7	15.0
Victorious	Team Sicilian	Komodo 8	15.0
JohnDx	Pure Chess	Stockfish 6 (Mod)	15.0
PublicEnemyN1	Infinity Best Friends	Houdini 4	14.5   € 1200
woodrun	Pure Chess	Stockfish 6 (Mod)	14.0
BigRabbit	German Tigers	Komodo kt-1365.00	14.0
DON007	Team Sicilian	Komodo 8	13.5
Thesicilian11	Team Sicilian	Komodo 8	13.5
Viper	Cryptic Warriors	Cryptic Heroes 2.7 A	13.5
ocirema	Infinity Best Friends	Houdini 4	13.5
VodkaMaster21	Team Sicilian	Komodo 8	13.0
uluru	The Skynet	Houdini 4	12.0
Guryon	Cryptic Warriors	Cryptic Heroes 2.7 A	12.0
SuperNova	The Skynet	Houdini 4	11.5
Medusa	Infinity Best Friends	Houdini 4	11.0
Time_bandit	Infinity Best Friends	Houdini 4	10.5
Marcel51	The Skynet	Houdini 4	9.0
robocop	The Skynet	Houdini 4	6.5

Crosstable

	Team Results in Infinity Chess Team Cup 2015
Rd. 1	Cryptic Heroes - Cryptic Warriors	8.0 - 8.0
Rd. 1	Freestyle Chess Superstars - Pure Chess	7.5 - 8.5
Rd. 1	Team Sicilian - German Tigers	7.0 - 9.0
Rd. 1	The Skynet - Infinity Best Friends	6.0 - 10.0
Rd. 2	Pure Chess - Team Sicilian	9.0 - 7.0
Rd. 2	Cryptic Heroes - Freestyle Chess Superstars	7.0 - 9.0
Rd. 2	Cryptic Warriors - Infinity Best Friends	9.5 - 6.5
Rd. 2	German Tigers - The Skynet	11.5 - 4.5
Rd. 3	Freestyle Chess Superstars - Cryptic Warriors	8.5 - 7.5
Rd. 3	Team Sicilian - Cryptic Heroes	8.0 - 8.0
Rd. 3	The Skynet - Pure Chess	5.0 - 11.0
Rd. 3	Infinity Best Friends - German Tigers	7.5 - 8.5
Rd. 4	Cryptic Heroes - The Skynet	11.0 - 5.0
Rd. 4	Freestyle Chess Superstars - Team Sicilian	7.5 - 8.5
Rd. 4	Cryptic Warriors - German Tigers	6.5 - 9.5
Rd. 4	Pure Chess - Infinity Best Friends	9.0 - 7.0
Rd. 5	Infinity Best Friends - Cryptic Heroes	5.0 - 11.0
Rd. 5	German Tigers - Pure Chess	7.0 - 9.0
Rd. 5	Team Sicilian - Cryptic Warriors	7.5 - 8.5
Rd. 5	The SkyNet - Freestyle Chess Superstars	6.0 - 10.0
Rd. 6	Pure Chess - Cryptic Warriors	8.0 - 8.0
Rd. 6	Cryptic Heroes - German Tigers	8.0 - 8.0
Rd. 6	Team Sicilian - The SkyNet	8.5 - 7.5
Rd. 6	Freestyle Chess Superstars - Infinity Best Friends	10.0 - 6.0
Rd. 7	The Skynet - Cryptic Warriors	5.0 - 11.0
Rd. 7	Infinity Best Friends - Team Sicilian	7.5 - 8.5
Rd. 7	German Tigers - Freestyle Chess Superstars	7.5 - 8.5
Rd. 7	Pure Chess - Cryptic Heroes	8.0 - 8.0

PGN database (reworked by Jojo / corrected version 03/05/2015)

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10 Future Technologies That Will Change The World

Airplane in solar panel power

New concept in solar energy poised to catch on across US

By STEVE KARNOWSKIMarch 7, 2015 10:31 AM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A new concept in renewable energy is catching fire across the country, allowing customers who might find solar panels too expensive or impractical to buy green energy anyway.

Community solar gardens first took off in Colorado a few years ago, and the model — also known as community or shared solar — has spread to Minnesota, California, Massachusetts and several other states. Capacity is expected to grow sharply this year, and interest is up among both residential customers who just like the idea and large companies that want to cut their carbon footprints.

The gardens feed electricity to the local power grid. Customers subscribe to that power and get credit on their utility bills, with contracts that typically lock in for 25 years and shelter against rate increases. Some developers say customer bills will drop below regular retail rates within a few years; others say the savings begin immediately.

"This is really the year that community solar becomes mainstream," said David Amster-Olszewski, CEO of Denver-based solar garden developer SunShare LLC, which runs two operations in Colorado and is developing more with Xcel Energy Inc., including in Minnesota.

Rooftop solar panels are becoming more popular among homeowners as the cost comes down, but that market is limited to only about one-fourth of U.S. residences, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy. Community solar opens the door to many more, including renters, customers with shaded roofs and those who can't afford solar panels.

It's friendly to big customers, too. Ecolab Inc. is the first major corporate customer to commit to Minnesota's program. The Fortune 500 sanitation technology company will get enough electricity from a project in the suburbs to provide most of the power for its St. Paul headquarters.

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In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, solar panels that are part of the Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric  …

At least 10 states promote ways for multiple customers to share renewable energy systems, according to the advocacy group Vote Solar, and a dozen states are actively promoting community solar.

California issued community solar regulations in late January, requiring three of the state's largest utilities to contract for 600 megawatts of new solar capacity. San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will build the largest share, which could supply 30,000-50,000 customers, spokesman Jonathan Marshall said.

"A large number of our customers simply can't go solar on their own," Marshall said. "This is a tremendous opportunity for them to go to 100 percent solar if they want it."

In Massachusetts, Clean Energy Collective expects to complete three community solar facilities in June in Uxbridge that'll provide enough juice for 400-500 residential and commercial customers in the southern part of the state. Colorado-based developer CEC has two other facilities in Massachusetts that serve about 100-200 customers and expects to announce more projects soon, spokesman Tim Braun said.

Minnesota's Legislature passed a community solar gardens law in 2013, and solar backers were amazed when Xcel Energy got a flood of proposals soon after opening the approval process in December.

But Xcel complained to regulators that many turned out to be "utility-scale projects," saying it didn't believe that's what the Legislature had in mind. The law defines a garden as 1 megawatt or less, and Xcel said developers simply planned multiple small gardens next to each other to get around it. Xcel worried that its grid might need expensive upgrades to handle all that new electricity.

Solar developers and advocates dismissed Xcel's concerns, saying the more solar that displaces electricity from coal and gas the better.

One solar garden powering up this summer is at Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, where roof panels will serve both the church and other subscribers. Pastor Brenda Froisland said her congregation has a progressive theology and wants to be good stewards of the Earth.

"As we learned more, it became a no-brainer for us," Froisland said. "We talked about using the power of the sun, s-u-n, to glorify the power of the Son, S-o-n

Guinness Record with World Chess Champion and 20,480 maximum number of chess players playing chess simultaneously

Gujarat organized the Guinness Record with World Chess Champion & NIIT MindChampion Viswanathan Anand

20,480 was the magical number at the GMDC Ground in Ahmedabad which eclipsed Mexico’s earlier record of 13,446 set in 2006 for the maximum number of chess players playing chess simultaneously. 24th December was also ‘date destiny’, for it was on this day in 2000 that India got its first World Chess Champion in Viswanathan Anand and again on this day, it was Anand who spearheaded India to the latest record breaking attempt. It was all hush for a moment when Guinness World Record adjudicator Tarika Vara first rose to speak after the simultaneous games but then a defeaning applause broke across when she did announce that the new Guinness World Record had been set.

The world record effort under way, with over 20,000 participants

The GMDC ground was magnificiently decked up like a chess board across 91 thousand square feet, and it was a smiling Anand who rang the bell for the games to begin. 1024 masters played against 20,480 players and also comprised of 140 blind players for the first time. Apart from chess players, 480 VIPs, including ministers, film stars, television actors, also participated in the simultaneous. There were 12,000 school children out of which 11,000 were from the NIIT MindChampion’s Academy, 3000 college students and around 5000 players from various chess clubs.

This photo by Deshgujarat – click here for a superb high resolution image

The players playing in White squares sported White T-shirts and caps while the black squared players donned black coloured outfits. The Gujarat Government with its Chief Minister Narendra Modi, leading from the fore front, Anand and NIIT were the organizers of this event. A huge shamiana (tent) was erected for players to have their breakfast and lunch.

The Chairman of NIIT, Rajendra S Pawar, with Vishy Anand

“The numbers are just mesmerizing and my eyes cannot take in 10,000 players, leave alone 20,000”, beamed Anand just as the event started.

About NIIT MindChampions’ Academy

The NIIT MindChampions’ Academy (MCA), a not-for-profit initiative has been set up as a joint initiative by Grand Master Viswanathan Anand and NIIT Limited, leading Global Talent Development Organisation and Asia’s largest IT Trainer, with the objective of promoting Chess in schools to enable development of young minds. Studies have shown that Chess improves concentration and diligence, thus helping students performs better academically. 
Established in 2002, the Academy has fostered over 11,200 Chess clubs with over 900,000 students as its members, in schools across India. MCA will cross the cumulative mark of one million students as its members, by the end of December 2010.

NEW MILITARY HELICOPTER CAN CRUISE AT 253 MPH

THE RAIDER BRINGS SPEED TO THE BATTLEFIELD, PROVING THAT HELICOPTERS CAN BE FASTER.

By Kelsey D. Atherton Posted October 6, 2014

  

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The Raider As Unveiled

Sikorsky

Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider looks like the future. Not the distant future -- not the “Star Trek” future -- but a closer, more attainable future. Its design is based primarily on Sikorsky's X-2 project, and as the name implies, this isn’t just the future of helicopters. This is the future of helicopters at war.

The Raider turns the standard helicopter’s normal balancing tail rotor perpendicular, making it a much faster pusher propeller. Rotors are great for maneuverability, and they allow for a much smaller landing surface than the runways required by fixed-wing planes, but helicopters often suffer from slow speed. The Raider features two rotors on top, spinning in opposite directions to counter each other’s torque, and the tail propeller provides forward momentum. With this set up, the X-2 set an unofficial helicopter speed recordby flying 258 mph in 2010. The Raider is, by and large, the production version of the X-2, tweaked and armed for military customers.

The pusher propeller design also hearkens back to an even older design. In the late 1960s, Lockheed designed the AH-56 Cheyenne, a fast attack helicopter for the army with a pusher propeller. The Cheyenne was plagued by disagreement between the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force over the respective roles of aircraft within each branch, and the Cheyenne was canceled over rising costs and stability issues.

Without the stubby wings of the Cheyenne, the Raider won’t face the same role confusion that plagued the Cheyenne, but it will match its speed. According to Sikorsky, the Raider can cruise at 253 mph. Sikorsky is marketing the Raider as a replacement for the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior, which tops out atabout 110 mph when armed. In addition to two pilots, the Raider can carry up to six troops with gear inside, letting it both scout out enemy positions and then add troops to the fight. The troop capacity of the Raider is about half that of the Blackhawk, one of the Army’s main troop carriers, and a lot less than that of the shape-changing V-22 Osprey, but it falls nicely between them both in speed.

Should the Army choose to adopt the Raider, they’ll have a new, fast and flexible scout. For the rest of the world, the Raider shows that helicopters can be faster. Here’s hoping that becomes more permanent.

Sikorsky Raider

Sikorsky

http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/new-military-helicopter-can-cruise-253-mph