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...solved all at once. We have to figure out what has to be contiguous to what, what the public needs access to,” says History of Science Professor Peter Galison, a member of the committee who calls the Allston problem “a three-dimensional chess game...
...It’s a multi-dimensional chess game,” Murphy said...
...Multi-Dimensional Chess Game?...
...caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night before he sprung his trap on Pearl. Sheikh, Lévy finds, is a "perfect Englishman" of Pakistani origin, a chess player and champion arm wrestler, a brilliant student at the London School of Economics who embraced radical Islam during a stint in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Lévy knows from court testimony that Sheikh shaved his beard and bought Gucci shoes, a Breitling watch and Ray-Ban sunglasses...
Cole said previous winners have submitted on subjects as varied as the Berlin Subway system, butterflies, chess, Chinese cooking and comic books...