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...CHESS. In this season’s Mainstage rock musical, three master chess players, Florence, Freddie and Anatoly face off in their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of Chess. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours...
...agents will be singing and chess players will be dancing when Chess begins its two week run on the Loeb Mainstage tonight. This rock musical, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the Swedish rock group ABBA, with lyrics by Tim Rice, tells the story of American and Russian chess players competing in a world champion chess match at the height of the Cold...
...game of chess is a metaphor for the relationships.” says co-producer Sarah E. Downer ’04. These relationships are not merely the results of entanglements of nationalist agendas, but also the everyday consequences of Cold War politics. The musical takes a darker look at the characters’ romances and the ways in which they mask their (occasionally unwanted) everyday realities...
...best conventional supercomputers billions of years. Since the codes used to protect corporate and military secrets are based on factoring, this development is of more than academic interest. Program a row of atoms to scan huge databases of information, and the result could be, among other things, the ultimate chess master, a quantum Deep Blue...
Last Tuesday, the cast lists were posted in the Loeb and Gann found herself in Chess, Kiss Me Kate, the first-year musical and Evening for Art. But she seems neither surprised nor proud...