Word: chess
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...World chess champion Gary Kasparov will be coming to Harvard on the weekend of October 27 to play a chess exhibition at Sanders Theatre, as part of a promotion of Soviet sports in the United States...
Kasparov, a Soviet citizen, is coming to Harvard to promote chess and other Soviet sports worldwide in conjunction with Glasnost, said Harvard Chess Club head Daniel H. Edelman...
...chess player will also discuss a new curriculum he has developed, which stresses chess as an academic discipline. Kasparov's curriculum has been proven to combat drug use in inner-city schools by endowing children with cognitive skills which allow them to make proper decisions concerning drugs, Edelman said...
...October 28, Kasparov will play an eight-person clock simultaneous exhibition. Three members of the Chess Club will play against the champion, Edelman said, including Vivek Rao '92, Issa Youssef '90 and Andrew H. Serotta '91. Kasparov will also face Anna Akhsharumova, one of the top woman players in America, an unannounced faculty member, an unannounced alumnus and two IBM computers...
...Sunday, Kasaparov will be present for the First Annual Harvard Chess Cup in which five of the stongest American chess players will play five computers, Edelman said. Before the tournament, Kasparov will make a few remarks on the future of computers in chess...