Word: chess
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With its well-proportioned central plaza and carefully orchestrated densities, however, Rockefeller Center is a clear descendant of classic cities, coherent and comfortably urban. The proposed Television City is--what? Towers in a park, sui generis, chess pieces (six pawns, a king, a bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters...
...world's two best chess players have long had an unremitting rivalry. Gary Kasparov, 22, the game's new king, last week moved aggressively in an off-the-board battle, seeking to get out of a required February rematch with his Soviet archrival, Anatoli Karpov, 34. The youngest chess champion in history demanded the ouster of World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, who is up for re-election in 1986 and whom Kasparov accuses of favoring Karpov. The mandatory title defense "is perfectly illegal," said Kasparov in an interview in Le Figaro, "and I don't have to submit...
...know OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging, Moneyball's sacred stat) from UPS. "I don't like the computer," he says. "I go with instincts and gut feelings and heart." Entering last weekend, the Nats had won an NL-high 17 one-run games, in which a manager's chess moves have the most impact...
...authors of the paper criticize popular college rankings for putting too much weight on the matriculation rate and the admission rate, which colleges can manipulate. Their own system is an extension of models used in chess and tennis tournaments, combining data about where students choose to matriculate given the colleges to which they are accepted. The rankings placed Harvard first, followed by Yale, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, MIT, Princeton, and Brown...
...paths, as undergraduates, were not that parallel,” says Little, the Class Secretary for the Class of 1955, who will also be Duehay’s roommate in Winthrop during the reunion. “Other than knowing he was on the chess team, I didn’t know that much...