Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allan B. Calhamer '53 and Allen Hollis '53 have been elected president and vice-president respectively of the Harvard Chess Club. Lawrence R. Casler '53 was re-elected secretary-treasurer...
...Giorgione of the 20th Century . . . He remains the unknown soldier of the war for modern art, perhaps because of the smallness of his output." Soldier Duchamp fought his last battle with a piece of canvas some 30 years ago, gave up painting to pursue a greater passion: chess. He has since (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949) become a fair player...
...varsity chess team won its fifth match of the Greater Boston Intercollegiate League yesterday by defeating Northeastern...
...recent issue of Britain's Nature, Dr. J. Bronowski of the Central Research Establishment of the National Coal Board takes issue with Dr. Shannon. A chess-playing computer, he says, could be made to learn by experience just as a human being does. It could be given a memory of unlimited capacity. It could remember each move in all the games it had played. By classifying moves, it could determine which were most successful in each chess situation. It could even classify its opponents by the character of their moves. Eventually, says Bronowski, when the computer's memory...
What would happen if two experienced chess machines played one another? The more experienced machine, thinks Bronowski, would always win. "In human life," he says, "maturity is always offset by loss of other powers. The machine, on the other hand, will become more and more experienced but will never lose any other faculties. That is the real difference between the human being and the machine in these circumstances. The machine can mature without growing old, getting better and better. So in this case, the most mature machine will always win, provided, of course, there is no mechanical failure. All good...