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Surely there must be some mistake. "The chessmaster today must have courage, a killer instinct, stamina, and arrogance," chess grandmaster Larry Evans once said. Yet an object possessing none of these emotions can dominate the game...
...Saturday afternoon, Gary Kasparov, reigning world chess champion, took his seat for another match. Across the board sat his opponent, showing no signs of nervousness even though he has played only a few matches in his short lifetime...
Some argue that chess is not a good test of intelligence for computers or humans. But chess does require a player to be far-sighted while dealing with smaller details and to discover and prepare for all the possibilities that do not occur. These skills might be useful in, say, business, government, science or life in general. If the federal government operated perfectly under these tenets, we might not even have a deficit. Chess does test some life skills, and we now have a computer, a lifeless object, that has mastered the game...
...computer did not create itself, nor did a single Frankenstein craft it in secrecy. Instead, the computer has been a collective effort over years. Deep Blue is a composite of many individuals, no single one of whom could hold the information or chess power it has. Perhaps this is a victory for society, demonstrating that the collective effort of a group of people is always stronger than the power of one person, however brilliant...
...wide through November and December; some are still going on. Says an AT&T manager: "On the whole, people felt it went well, that the right people were selected. But there were voices of dissent. You needed to have a good mentor selling your case, some said. And the chess game hasn't stopped. There are rumors that a lot of the slotting was done just to get the numbers, to be done with the process. It was done in a hurry, and what we were told today could be undone later...