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...fact, Hitech is so smart it disdains playing its fellow computers. Since 1986, Hitech has been competing on the regular chess circuit, matching wits only with humans. It has a solid master's rating of 2376, well behind former World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, the top-ranked player in this tournament, with a 2700 rating, but Hitech is a dangerous enough competitor to have caused a minor furor last August by scoring a first-place finish in the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship. It is the 22nd-ranked player in the National Open...
...wall, the splash of drinking water into plastic cups all seem unbearably nerve-racking. On the twelfth move Kudrin, playing Black, guilefully offers Hitech a pawn. Hitech can't resist taking it -- thereby opening up the board to a masterful attack. From then on, it's Kudrin's game. Mikhail Tal wanders over from time ( to time, nodding approval. "The game is over," says a downcast Berliner, "only Hitech doesn't know...
Outside Poland, last week's unrest and the force used to quell it must have had a profoundly disquieting effect on the Soviet Union and its leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. The economic reform measures at the center of the Polish dispute, after all, are the local version of Gorbachev's campaign of perestroika (restructuring), and early setbacks in a key satellite hardly bode well for the vaster and still more intractable economy of the Soviet Union. The proximate cause of the wave of strikes in Poland was the imposition of price hikes, ranging from 40% for food staples...
...Moscow meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev is scheduled to begin...
...protests were a direct challenge to the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, 64, who crushed Solidarity and declared martial law in 1981. Since 1987, emulating Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jaruzelski has sought to streamline Poland's creaky economy. On Feb. 1 and April 1 of this year, the government introduced a series of price hikes accompanied by compensatory payments to workers. The result was a first-quarter inflation rate of 45% and bitter complaints that workers could not keep up with the cost of living...