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...PAWN TAKES MASTER...
...that McVeigh allegedly confessed to the bombing," Cole says. Adds TIME's Charlotte Faltermayer, legal experts believe Matsch's easy-going manner in conducting jury selection could be a good indicator of whether he will allow testimony on the defense's most important theory: that McVeigh was simply a pawn in a larger foreign conspiracy and took no part in the actual bombing. Matsch, who controls how much the defense can spend on its investigations, already has approved thousands of dollars to pay for defense lawyers' trips to the Middle East and the Phillippines, to investigate the suspects' possible foreign...
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...
...another? Benjamin has spent the past year helping Deep Blue's programmers encode thousands of positional evaluation rules, leavening the program's computational prowess with what one might call street smarts. "The hardware can detect certain features of a chessboard," says Campbell. "Rooks on open files, pins, pawn structure. It's a matter of assigning weights to how important these features are in a given position...