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Mindleness and Masterplay: the Implications of Computer Chess for Artificial Intelligence: Cognative Sciences Table, Dunster House Small Dining Room, Harvard, dinner at 5:30, talk...
...expects to meet three roommates like himself: with strong interests in chess, passions for classical music, and no desires for "creative disorder." As the door swings open, he is greeted by Van Halen being played at top volume, a floorful of dirty clothing, and two roomies tossing a football...
Despite its subtle elegance, world-championship chess ranks among the most soporific of all spectator sports. Take the inconclusive contest between reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov, 34, and fellow Soviet Grand Master Gary Kasparov, 22, that ended abruptly last February. Victory was to have gone to the first player to win six games. But 48 grueling confrontations, held over five long months, produced just five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov and an astonishing 40 draws. World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes finally halted the match, explaining, some thought lamely, that the players were exhausted. But no one nodded...
Several nights a week, Hunsberger sets up his guitar, microphone and amplifier a little before 7 p.m. in front of the Cambridge Trust Bank. After a short time, people watching the chess master, buying food in Au Bon Pain, or just walking along Mass. Ave. stop, listen, and sometimes begin to dance...
...Alburt] seems to have a lot of inside information," said Thomas C. Zuppa, a member of the Massachusetts Chess Association Board of Directors...