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...first time in the match, Fritz began by advancing its queen pawn two squares. This normally leads to quieter positions than the advance of the king pawn, which the machine had preferred in the earlier games. In the resulting opening, called the Queen's Gambit Declined, Fritz emerged with a slight advantage and kept the champion under pressure. Kramnik tried to exchange queens to simplify the position, a strategy that had previously served him well. But the machine slyly avoided the exchange and headed toward an endgame where it would have had one more pawn than Kramnik, who would...
...procedure changed—the previous requirement was the submission of photographs in three outfits— Harvard women continued to get recognized by Glamour, with at least 13 winners since 1980. Last year, Ajarae D. Johnson ’02 won Glamour’s “Queen G” contest, a competition open to women of all ages...
...times, but there are enough young guys rotating in and out to stop other teams from here on out. Junior Mante Dzakuma, who took last year off, came back in a big way Saturday, snagging two interceptions. In this category, also see: sophomore Brian Niemczak and junior Juano Queen...
Leela Corman's "Subway Series" (Alternative Comics; 144pp.; $9.95) follows her 1999 self-published debut, "Queen's Day." Where her first book collected short, enigmatic tales of women lost in far-away places, "Subway Series" has Corman carrying a similar theme to novel length. Though still lost, her characters have a more concrete location: New York City. "Subway Series" tells of the particular frustrations and confusions that come with being an urban teenage girl...
...immaculately groomed. At the whim of a stylist, who envisaged a “boho-chic” shoot surrounded by red desert sands, we drove 15 hours from Sydney to a town in the middle of the Australian outback incidentally made famous as the location where the drag-queen epic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was filmed. Staying at the only available “hotel” (a run-down pub known affectionately to the bushie locals as “Mario’s Palace”) and working in 100-degree temperatures...