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Remarkably, Schrempp knew little of this. A man who constantly uses chess as a metaphor for his business drive, Schrempp craves information. Much of his comes through the executive "war room" near his office, where nuggets of intelligence about DaimlerChrysler's vast empire are constantly ingested and analyzed. But Holden had demanded and received complete autonomy when he took over Chrysler, and he used it to wall himself off from the Daimler side in Stuttgart...
...from the merely pretentious. In her dazzling debut novel, The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 530 pages; $24.95), Helen DeWitt walks this line with the utmost confidence. Describing the book, however--a work that covers decades, spans oceans, has sections in Japanese, Greek and Old Norse, and touches on chess strategy and Laplace transformations, whatever they are--may be tricky, so hang on tight...
Though renowned philosophy professor John R. Searle has called some of Kurzweil's visions "preposterous," several of his predictions about cyberdevelopments of the 1990s--Does a computer beating a world chess champion sound familiar?--have proved dead...
...Harvard Chess Club's top four players, Yakov Chudnovsky '01, Jonathan A. Wolff '01, Charles R. Riordan '01 and Yin, each played two games in the eight-game tournament...
...Wolff Cup, which Harvard will now keep for the next year, is named after Patrick Wolff, the only grandmaster to play on both sides of the Harvard-Yale chess tournament. He spent two years as an undergraduate at Harvard and two years as an undergraduate at Yale...