Word: chess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just two weeks, the fastest-rising star in the world of chess won a major championship in Florida, trounced Danish grand master Bent Larsen and scored a sensational first-place tie with former British champion Tony Miles in a California tournament. Even more remarkable, the prodigy that achieved these triumphs is less than a year old. The prodigy is in fact a computer named Deep Thought...
Many economists have been staring through a veil of mathematics that can further distort what they see. "Economics research has become more a game of chess than a search for understanding reality," says economist David Colander of Middlebury College in Vermont. Colander and Arjo Klamer, a visiting professor at the University of Iowa, surveyed more than 200 graduate students at six top economics departments. When the students were asked what it took to advance rapidly in the economics profession, an astonishing 68% said "a thorough knowledge of the economy" was unimportant. At the same time, 57% picked "excellence in mathematics...
Meanwhile, Brown retrieved Wyche five years ago to coach Cincinnati -- as it happens, the 49ers' opponent this Super Sunday in Miami. For the first time in many a Roman numeral, perhaps in the whole stolid history of the most consistently disappointing annual spectacle in America, a two-sided chess match is not only promised but guaranteed. The only question about Walsh and Wyche is which of them is wormier with ideas. Their imaginations are so active that the very canons of the sport are under strain. The National Football League is worried...
...their savings from the Nazis. Detained by the Gestapo, he commits suicide rather than yield the numbers of the secret accounts he has opened. Now only one person in the world knows how to retrieve the hidden $350 million: the banker's great-grandson Thomas. The eleven-year-old chess prodigy has memorized the long list of digits. A brilliant homosexual SS officer sets out in pursuit of the money...
...young protagonist -- who except Hitler could root against a pre- pubescent? -- and a prime villain. Colonel Gregor Laemmle, the SS officer in pursuit of Thomas, is far more than the usual posturing sadist. A former philosophy professor, he is a connoisseur of art and literature and something of a chess master himself. Laemmle regards the hunting of Thomas as a large- scale tournament, with gambits to be savored even when they go against the Germans...