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Game 2 created an enigma for me that I never solved and from which I never recovered. I would like the IBM team to start disclosing the secrets of how they achieved this unthinkable success in chess programming. They claim they developed software that enabled them to change the style of the program in mid-match and the evaluation ability of the machine from game to game. This also is revolutionary, because any change, any tweak in the computer normally needs weeks of testing to avoid potential bugs...
Other suggest that the sheer size of HDS makes it impossible to create ambitious entrees with any degree of success...
Harvard's pitching in Oklahoma was just as big a success as the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Senior Frank Hogan (8-2) did his job admirably, limiting the Bruins to just two hits in the first six innings...
...insular nation. The likelihood he will take the election is enhanced, he says, by the fact that conservative trends have been gaining ground in Iran over the past several years. The backing Nateq-Nouri has the recieved from powerful figures in the Iranian establishment also improve his chances of success. "A victory by Nateq-Nouri will mean that conservative forces will be strengthened. The cultural chill we have seen in Iran over the past few years would only deepen...
...George Washington in 1790, advising him on how to furnish the presidential mansion, "to fix the taste of our country properly...everything about you should be substantially good and majestically plain, made to endure." Modern Americans are taught to love luxury, to think of it as a reward for success. Those of the late 18th century were more apt to distrust it as a vice. They associated it with frivolity, decadence--colonial rule. Virtue showed itself in plainness, explicitness, pragmatism, "making do," an unfussed directness of craftsmanship. There was, as the phrase went, an "American grain...