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...Iowa caucuses the night before: Dole, Buchanan, Alexander and, a day later (though not a dollar shorter), Forbes. As they settled into their base camps at hotels around Manchester, each candidate sat down with his brain trust, looked at the polls and began to figure out the four-way chess match they would have to play for the next seven days...
...smallish room in the Philadelphia convention center, world chess champion Garry Kasparov continues his chess struggle against IBM's Deep Blue computer. With the six-game match tied at 2-2 heading in Friday's game, the match has if nothing else served as a demonstration that brute computer power can at least equal the best that humans have to offer, says TIME's William Dowell. "Kasparov personally evaluated Deep Blue's performance as ranging somewhere between 2300 and 3000 depending on circumstances. Kasparov's own chess rating is 2750. The best computer before Kasparov was somewhere around 2300." Although...
...time, the amount of information exploded, and people began encountering less and less of all the information in the world. We have become so specialized that each scientist has his or her own vocabulary, and a politician's jargon is different from a lawyer's. Now the game of chess has also been placed beyond one person's reach...
Perhaps it is inevitable that Deep Blue or its progeny will become the world chess champion. But let us stave off the future a few moments longer. Let us keep the world within the grasp of an individual. Kasparov, all of humanity is behind...
PHILADELPHIA: Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is battling for his reputation against a computer he calls 'the monster'. Currently he is tied 1-1 against the worlds most potent chess computer, an IBM RS-6000SP named Deep Blue. In his first game, Kasparov tried a late game assault which might have rattled a human opponant, but Deep Blue remained unruffled and forced Kasparov to resign on move 37. In the second match yesterday, Kasparov offered Deep Blue short term advantages which weakened its overall position enough for him to force Deep Blue resignation on move 73 after five hours and forty...