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Each night the man and the boy sat hunched over the same table, playing chess in Stuart's Coffee House in the seaside town of Bellingham, Wash. sometimes they would play until midnight. The man, John Allen Muhammad, 41, did what little talking had to be done. The boy, 17-year-old Lee Malvo, listened. Whenever cafe employees intruded with small talk, he would glance to Muhammad, as if for permission, before answering. They drank only plain coffee, as the college students and patrons around them indulged in smoothies and tarts and poetry readings. And each game ended the same...
...first asked to be a faculty advisor for the Harvard Tetris Society, he didn’t realize the myriad benefits of the game. Klemperer, who says he dislikes video games because he is bad at them, says, “On reflection, the Society is just like a chess club—which everyone would be fine with. Tetris is analogous to the game of Go, which is also very interesting.” He also noted that “very few students here want to waste their time, so they must be really interested in Tetris...
...draw on the twenty-second move. The see-saw-like match - Kramnik dominated the first half and Deep Fritz rallied in the second half - ended up a tie, four games to four, and therefore did not resolve the burning question of whether man or machine plays better chess. Kramnik wants a rematch, but before he gets another shot, Garry Kasparov, his former teacher and arch rival, will take on one of Deep Fritz's cousins, the Israeli program Deep Junior, in a match in Jerusalem in December...
...Woodpushers around the world who were watching Game 8 on the Web were disappointed that Kramnik, the pre-match favorite, did not crush the silicon beast. Chess players were angry at the Russian grand master for calling a truce without a fight. "There should be a new rule," said Tony Rook, host of the Web site http://chess.fm. "If you draw before move 30, you're barred from chess for life...
...Eight moves later, the computer's king was still exposed but it had defended brilliantly with a precise series of improbable moves, and no one could see how Kramnik could checkmate it. "There is a difference between playing exciting chess and playing cavalierly," said a disappointed Paschall. On the twenty-seventh move, Kramnik reached out as if he was going to move a piece but suddenly withdrew his hand. He cradled his head and started talking to himself. "He must be very tired, playing this Thing," Swidler commented...