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Over entrees a smug Tan hits Kasparov with the news of Deeper Blue's smashing victory over the program that made him sweat last February, and suddenly he focuses, laserlike, on his favorite subject. Before last year's match, he admits, the chess world felt "a computer would have very little chance of beating a top grand master." That myth faded quickly. Halfway through Game 1, faced with daunting circumstances--"an open position, my king is exposed, many weaknesses"--Kasparov undertook a blitzkrieg aimed at Deep Blue's king, the sort of hell-bent gambit that has devastated every pretender...
...move 16, and Deep Blue is thinking. Or rather, Deep Blue's 512 processors are reviewing 200 million chess positions per second in order to create the illusion that Deep Blue is thinking. And it isn't really Deep Blue either. It's what the guys at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, call Deeper Blue: the second generation of the original Deep Blue, the infamous chess program that one year ago threw a stunning uppercut to human self-esteem by winning the first game of its six-game match against world champion Garry...
...plotting revenge ever since, and is now prepping for the rematch, which will take place in Manhattan in May. Today, in this cramped lab at T.J. Watson, Deep and Deeper are playing their first father-son game, a sort of silicon Oedipal struggle. The first 15 moves are what chess types yawn at as "standard"--established openings. Very safe. No surprises...
...From ballet dancers to chess players to people in the military, many transfers do bring some special experience that students directly from high school cannot," Green says. "Some transfers have very well-developed thinking along a particular line and have already decided the particular interests they have come here to develop. Some bring non-traditional experience beyond the classroom--they have started a business or worked professionally as musicians...
...compare squash and racquetball, I would use the analogy of chess and checkers. Squash has a different ball, a different racket, different rules and a different court, but you're still in a big box, and that's like having the same checkered board," Barenbaum explains...