Word: f4
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Move 16 is when Deeper Blue pauses to "think." Finally, its human monitor announces, "F4." F4? An excited buzz sweeps the room. F4! Deeper Blue has advanced the knight's pawn two squares, loosening its kingside defense with an assumption of the superiority of its position that would surely be considered arrogant if a carbon-based life-form were making it. "This move was special," murmurs Joel Benjamin, a former U.S. champion and current Deep Blue consultant. The room nods in agreement. Deeper Blue is thinking...
Pretty soon, Deeper Blue is kicking butt. From F4 onward, its inexorable kingside march swallows one pawn after another, and Deep Blue resigns 18 moves later. The room erupts in applause. The same thought is on everyone's mind: the new program is better. The new program is a lot better. We're gonna crush Kasparov like...
Bill Roy actually leads several lives. As a skeet shooter, he is on target to win a gold medal at the Atlanta Games. As an Air Force major, he pilots an F4-E Phantom II jet. In a previous assignment, he was an instructor of American literature at the Air Force Academy, teaching such classics as Moby Dick. He is also a Sunday school teacher, the leader of a Boy Scout troop, a husband and the father of five daughters. Is he superhuman? Not really, says Roy: "I feel like I'm just an ordinary guy who can do extraordinary...