Word: chesse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...board games--Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit--sit stacked on a brown wooden bookshelf in the upper corner of the room, their box covers tattered from frequent use. Kedlaya says he also enjoys chess and bridge, but doesn't find much time to play...
Turning back to the guest, Barbosa remarks that the disruptive teenager is very interested in chess. He did well in the last tournament the center sponsored and is expected to do well once again in next week's tournament...
...watched chess before but never really played," Barbosa said. "And here, he discovered that he was really good at it. I guess that's what we're trying to do here...
Groups such as the Harvard Noteables performed for the multitudes of chess players, tourists, coffee-drinkers and those who would quietly sing along to songs like "Ain't Misbehavin...
...amazes me that people would compare human thought to a pure number-crunching operation. Playing chess is number crunching; thinking is an entirely different game. Let me humbly offer a unique test for determining whether a computer can think. I call it the Dylan test. Build two artificial-intelligence machines exactly alike and load them with exactly the same software. Then put some Bob Dylan music for them to listen to. When one machine hates it and the other loves it, you have some real thinking going on. DELIO DESTRO Sao Paulo, Brazil Via E-mail...