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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...
...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...
...Engineering Sciences; Frederick S. Lee, Leverett, Biochemical Sciences; Kenneth C. Lee, North, Economics; Jonathan M. Levine, Leverett, Government; Alexander J. Rimberg, North, Physics; Jeffrey M. Rosen, Adams. English and American Literature and Language Combination; Hyunjune S. Seung, Mather, Physics; Lewis B. Silverman, Winthrop Biology; Mark S. Weinfeld, Leverett, Biology; Tal-Muyi, Currier, Biochemical Sciences...
...than ever: of its four Arab neighbors, only Syria is a military menace. Yet that has not translated into psychological security. Three dozen years after its birth, Israel faces problems never imagined by Yaacov Zvieli and other founders. "We now disagree among ourselves on everything," says Major General Israel Tal, the father of his country's tank industry. "It is not the environment that has changed or the political realities. It is we who have changed." Says Knesset Speaker Menachem Savidor, a member of the Liberal Party: "It appears as if we have returned to the tribal period...
...Tal Johnson (H) d. Ned Groves...