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...pioneered in the development of time snaring, a method by which many people can use a computer simultaneously. The computer even became his chief form of relaxation. In the small hours of the morning, after what is often a 20-hour workday, Kemeny frequently plays simulated games of chess, poker and football on a computer console in the study of his home. For Dartmouth's football coaches, he created a computer system to help keep track of scouting data...
...into the college's computer from any of the 200 terminals on the campus. By the time they leave, about 90% of Dartmouth's 3,455 undergraduates will know how to operate and even program a computer. Some never progress beyond playing simulated games of football or chess, but more than half take courses on how to use computers in scientific and behavioral research. "I want the computer to become as familiar as the library," says Kemeny...
Eleven Harvard students entered this year's Greater Boston Open Chess Tournament: six ended in the money...
Then the knights got to it, hacking away with wooden weapons in individual duels, melees with nine men on a side, and a violent game of chess in which each piece is represented by a human warrior who walks out the moves dictated by his king. But instead of merely capturing an opponent's piece, he must "slay" the occupant of a contested square...
Slater says that chess has taught him much about winning in business. He built a fortune by becoming a master of the corporate takeover, analyzing companies' strengths and weaknesses, then moving to capture them by means of quick, surprising purchases of stock. Though his Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. was founded only eight years ago, his takeover tactics have made it one of the largest investment-banking firms in Europe. It owns major or controlling interests in 200 companies and, Slater insists, "half of them do not even know about it." Slater, Walker has assets of some $800 million; last...