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...just opened at theatres across the Midwest, they programmed the Sloan-Kettering computer to respond to the password "Joshua," just like in the film. On a different computer, they caused the system to respond to the password with another War Games line: "Would you like a nice game of chess, Dr. Falken...
...instead of a chess match the makers of the film opt for a dressed up car chase and fail to realize the excitement that the raw material promises...
Artificial-intelligence theorists play more potent games. Teaching machines to play chess or ask questions like a psychotherapist's is only the beginning...
...breeze. In the seven classes of boats, U.S. skippers took three gold medals and four silvers, followed by the Canadians and the New Zealanders, who sailed away with three medals each. The men at the helms of these swift, finicky craft needed the cunning of a chess player, the agility of a gymnast. And experience counted too. The most weathered sailor was Denmark's Paul Elvstrom, 59, career winner of four Olympic gold medals, whose daughter Trine served as crew. With Trine flying on the boat-stabilizing trapeze, the gray-bearded Elvstrom raced to a fourth-place finish...
Fencing has often been called a physical chess game, and, as in chess, the nuances are infinite. In the back of the theater, a father said, "I don't know what's happening, Jerry. Too much of this is in French." Actually, "en garde "is part of the universal language. The man was really bewildered by a melee onstage, which caused a row of black ties to depart. "Ladies and gentlemen," said Pierre Baston, the bilingual commentator, "the directorat technique is now adjourning to decide the point. I must warn you that such decisions have been known...