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While Karpov and Kasparov were face to face, the two computers were 750 miles apart--the Cray in Mendota Heights, Minn., the Sun on the Pittsburgh campus of Carnegie-Mellon University. The computers' moves were sent over telephone lines to Denver and relayed to a regulation chessboard. But distance did not hurt the game. Says Chess Master David Levy: "For the first time a program played like a strong human player...
...line of attack, Oracle switches control to a separate unit called Searcher. Designed by Carl Ebeling, a Carnegie-Mellon graduate student, and manufactured under a Defense Department grant, Searcher is a bread-box- size device that contains 64 special-purpose microprocessors. Each is assigned & to one square of the chessboard. When a piece lands on a particular square, the microchip dedicated to that square determines the likely outcomes. Operating at peak speeds, the 64 chips can evaluate more than 175,000 positions per sec., or 30 million in the 3 min. allowed for each move of tournament play...
...Until now the Geneva negotiations have been paralyzed. During the arid summer round, one U.S. representative told his Soviet counterpart, "Go ahead, tempt us. Make us an offer we can't refuse." Now Moscow appears to be trying to do just that. Further, the Soviets' move on the diplomatic chessboard will strengthen their argument that the summit can and should produce results. Reagan, on bidding Shevardnadze farewell, acknowledged that the visit had produced "progress" but declined to characterize it. Shultz, while saying that Reagan had not changed his view on Star Wars, spoke in positive terms about the latest proposition...
...plan worked, to NBC's profit as well as its honor, and it was implemented by Brandon Tartikoff. At the time, Tartikoff was thought to be Silverman's Silverman: a hard-driving guy with a passion for the lowest common denominator. But as Tinker and Tartikoff discussed the multidimensional chessboard of prime-time scheduling, they realized they saw eye to eye on many things, especially the need to lure the handful of producers who could set NBC on the high road to success. In the process, according to Goldberg, "Grant brought out the best in Brandon, as an executive...
Kampuchea offers a more extreme example. The anti-Vietnamese (hence anti- Soviet) resistance there includes the Khmer Rouge forces of Pol Pot, the deposed tyrant of that benighted country. He might be a pawn on the international chessboard; but, having presided over the murder of as many as 2 million of his own countrymen, he can hardly be called a freedom fighter...