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...with science. Psychoanalysis is hardly an objective discipline. Physical scientists must cope with the fact that even inert nature can be altered by the act of observation. The assumption that one active mind can know another is staggering in its implications-like playing three-dimensional chess in a maze of mirrors...
...also warned the U.S. to consider its general foreign policy in broader terms. "The Russians are better chess players," Atwood said...
...less than friendly rivalry between Great Britain's marvelous distance runners Sebastian Coe, 24, and Steve Ovett, 25, has become the track world's version of playing chess by mail. Each year, the two set out on separate paths through the summer track circuit, studiously avoiding head-to-head encounters while carefully selecting races where they have the best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark...
...brainy battle of wits began in the East bloc, where youthful talent in mathematics is cultivated as lovingly as it is in sports, chess and the ballet. Rumania won the first olympiad in 1959, although the Soviets have been the best performers since then, taking a total of nine golds in what has usually been, in spite of its name, an annual event. The U.S., uneasy about going up against the fearsome East Europeans, did not enter until 1974. But the Yanks have done surprisingly well. They came in second on their first try, then...
...away against muscle teams like Boston or St. Louis. He is too fast to be slashed and high-sticked by hockey's ever present goon squads. "Some guys hit me, but guys miss a lot too," he laughs. Gretzky also plays hockey the way a grand master envisions chess. He anticipates passes and patterns that develop seconds later. Gretzky's only weakness is defense: he sometimes forgets it exists. Says Sather: "I have to remind him now and then...