Word: blunderer
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...human race evolved and to which all great chess players return. What's left is playing percentages. Deep Blue refused to follow a strategy it recognized as a likely loser, even one that any decent grand master could see offered the best chances for victory due to, say, a blunder by a rattled foe. The machine just didn...
...lawsuits from members who say the move has congested the network and made it impossible to log on, but it must also suffer the indignity of being ridiculed by the competition before 100 million TV viewers Super Bowl Sunday. Seizing the opportunity to capitalize on AOL's cyber-blunder, CompuServe will air a 30-second commercial depicting 15 seconds of black screen accompanied by repeated unsuccessful attempts by a user to log on to an unnamed online service. The ad, clearly aimed at AOL's incessant logjams, then briefly goes silent before viewers are shown CompuServe's logo...
...takes starry optimism to see the settling of the eastern Montana drylands primarily as a romance rather than, say, a swindle or a blunder. And starry optimism is what settling this magnificent emptiness required in the first place, as Jonathan Raban relates in his beautifully told historical meditation, Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon; 336 pages...
Morris: We decided, on my urging, that we would lead into the convention with a lot of bill signings and directives--health care, welfare, tobacco regulations. The Republicans made a serious blunder in timing by sending bills to the White House just after their convention, allowing us to use them to slice away at their momentum. Before the opening gavel fell, we had regained 6 of the points we had lost...
...night of the Israeli election, when the race was too close to call but exit polls had Prime Minister Shimon Peres in front of challenger Benjamin Netanyahu, Morris wanted Clinton to go in front of the TV cameras to congratulate Peres on his victory, which would have been a blunder of Dewey-beats-Truman proportions. Stephanopoulos quietly killed the idea...