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Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov defeated the world's best chess computer, Deep Thought, last night in Memorial Hall...
...Karpov, winner of 77 major international tournaments, is the second best chess player in the world. The world's premier chess master, Gary Kasparov, also a Soviet, visited Harvard for a series of matches last fall...
...press conference before the match, Karpov said he was confident that he would win the game against Deep Thought, which analyzes more than 700,000 moves per second. "Any human can make a mistake," he said, "but I believe I must...
...Gabriel Schoenfeld--then a graduate fellow at the Russian Research Center--pointed out in The New York Times in 1984, the succession battle imminent at the time would be one between Karpov, a political "today, and the more individualistic Kasparov. And while Schoenfeld predicted that the Soviet government would back Karpov, Kasparov's success and the very openness with which he criticizes Gorbachev today are a political sign in themselves...
Perestroika has not significantly improved life in the Soviet Union, Kasparov says, calling Gorbachev "the man who has now become a dictator." And he gets in a few digs at Karpov, as well, labelling him "a symbol of the Soviet system...