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Seltzer was expected to fare well, but Oliver S. Tai '96 pulled off an upset by beating his opponent in both games. "I didn't think he was playing that well that day," Tai said...
...Tai attributed his victory to a difference in strategy. "[Seltzer] is a much more aggressive player," he said. "I tried to keep it conservative which ismore my style. I played a nonstandard opening,which he obviously didn't seem to be used...
Along with Martin, Bronsteen and Tai, WenningXing '96 journeyed to Yale for the chess event
...Tai Sing Lee '86 works in a Harvard robotics lab constructing a mathematical model to explain how the brain detects surfaces and boundaries of objects...
Observations of apes in the wild provide further insights. In the Tai forest in the Ivory Coast, Swiss biologist Christophe Boesch points out a flat piece of granite with two small hollows on the top. The rock has marks from heavy use for some purpose. "If an anthropologist came upon this in the forest," says Boesch, "he might think he had found a human artifact." Instead, it is used by chimpanzees for nut cracking. The chimps place a panda nut in one of the depressions and then smash it with a smaller stone. Boesch has watched a mother chimp instruct...