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...YORK--It was a battle of world chess champions--human vs. computer--and the mind proved mightier than the microchip...
...world champion, 26-year-old Garri Kasparov, coasted to two victories Sunday over Deep Thought, a chess-playing computer that can analyze more than 700,000 moves a second...
...cast or crew of Alice in Wonderland: Film at Eleven is about to leave you guessing whether or not you will see a spectacle. The action, for example, begins with four Beatlesque Tweedledees singing something of a disclaimer on a giant chess board, lit in blue, that rises up into the air and ends bordered by a giant tree stump on the left and a plump mushroom on the right...
...October 28, Kasparov will play an eight-person clock simultaneous exhibition. Three members of the Chess Club will play against the champion, Edelman said, including Vivek Rao '92, Issa Youssef '90 and Andrew H. Serotta '91. Kasparov will also face Anna Akhsharumova, one of the top woman players in America, an unannounced faculty member, an unannounced alumnus and two IBM computers...
...Sunday, Kasaparov will be present for the First Annual Harvard Chess Cup in which five of the stongest American chess players will play five computers, Edelman said. Before the tournament, Kasparov will make a few remarks on the future of computers in chess...