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Quote of the Week: "If I win, I'm going to wallpaper my room with a picture of the final position, and then I'm going to spike my king."--Issa Youssef of the Harvard chess team, before playing world champion Gary Kasparov. But don't worry about Youssef getting caught for violating Harvard room decoration regulations or being penalized five yards for "excessive celebrating." She was one of eight Kasparov victims in a simultaneous two-hour match Saturday...
Women, he said in an interview in Playboy, just don't have the aggressive drive to be world champion chess players...
...youngest chess champion in history, Kasparov has no illusions about how long he will hold his title. At a brunch yesterday in Dunster House, he predicted that he would go the way of past champions...
...brunch, the chess champion predicted that the one-party system would last "not long, much less than it has been [in existence]." He added, "You can't change anything with a one-party dictatorship...
...article on Saturday's sports page, the Crimson mistakenly reported that chess champion Gary Kasparov would play the computer Deep Thought that day. Kasparov played Deep Thought last week in New York. The Crimson also mistakely reported the name and title of one of Kaasparov's opponents. She is Anna Akhsharumova and does not teach at Harvard...