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...computer opponents, Sargon 4 and Deep Thought, should not pose too much difficulty for the Soviet champ. The reason Kasparov made this tour of the U.S. was to face Deep Thought, acclaimed as toughest chess computer opponent ever devised...
...final stop of a highly publicized American tour, outspoken World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov yesterday blasted the leader of his native Soviet Union in a free-for-all question-and-answer session at Harvard's Russian Research Center...
...hour at the center in Coolidge Hall, about 60 Soviet scholars and local chess enthusiasts shot. questions at Kasparov, who in 1985 became the youngest chess Grand master in history at age 22. Kasparov, a full member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1984 and a Azerbaijani Central Committee member, will play an exhibition chess match in Cambridge today...
...chess master blamed much of the Soviet Union's problems on Gorbachev. Kasparov, a former backer, said he became disillusioned with the Soviet leader in February when it became clear to him "that Gorbachev only wants perestroika of the system, but the Soviet people want perestroika of the society...
...chess champion also said he wished to forma new political party in the Soviet Union to"destroy the Communist base in the country,slowly...