Word: chesse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Remember chess in the old days: two men facing off across a table, hands on buzzers, with no chance of funny business? Now consider the most heavily hyped chess match of 1999: Garry Kasparov vs. The World ? which ended Monday in disappointment, cries of foul play and extraordinary mea culpas from Microsoft, the event's sponsor. The match started in June with the premise of pitting the planet's top player in a four-month match against a global army of Internet users. Kasparov's moves were posted on the Microsoft site zone.com; surfers voted on the countermove based...
...June, Kasparov told TIME writer/reporter Chris Taylor that one of the two chess masters he feared in the match was Irina Krush, the 15-year-old U.S. women?s chess champion. But on move 58, Microsoft did not post Krush's suggestion, saying they received it too late. Her move would have forced a stalemate, but the most popular move led to a Kasparov victory ? and outrage among the web surfers who'd devoted hours to the match...
...after fellow techno behemoth IBM proved its might by using its most powerful computer, Deep Blue, to defeat Kasparov in 1997. Nor was the match one for which Kasparov was particularly pumped up, says Taylor. "He was going into it as an experiment to get more people involved in chess. He told me he was expecting a draw... This [botched e-mail] taints a great experiment. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft invited him back for a rematch." Maybe they could broadcast it live on the undercard of the Lennox Lewis-Evander Holyfield rematch...
...gigs for this Friday night and three for the next eveningoeach paying over a grandohad to whip out his over-used cell phone to call Stetson in his room and remind him to rejoin the group for their next concert. That was an hour ago and now Chess and the rest of the Kroks are sitting around in the parlor at the Faculty Club, waiting to sing for more corporate types fresh off a day at the Ryder Cup. Increasingly drunk, the PricewaterhouseCoopers crowd, who have rented the club for the night, give speeches about one another, their wives, their...
...heard about it at the beginning of the semester as just a rumor," member Chess A. Stetson '01 said. "It turned out to be a true rumor...