Word: tan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the Harvard men's tennis team, you went to California to work on the tan and take on some potent West Coast squads in the process. Over the past two years, success has been difficult to come by in California, as highly-ranked warmweather teams have traditionally sent the Crimson limping back East...
Over entrees a smug Tan hits Kasparov with the news of Deeper Blue's smashing victory over the program that made him sweat last February, and suddenly he focuses, laserlike, on his favorite subject. Before last year's match, he admits, the chess world felt "a computer would have very little chance of beating a top grand master." That myth faded quickly. Halfway through Game 1, faced with daunting circumstances--"an open position, my king is exposed, many weaknesses"--Kasparov undertook a blitzkrieg aimed at Deep Blue's king, the sort of hell-bent gambit that has devastated every pretender...
...Deep Blue team, led by senior manager C.J. Tan, has been plotting revenge ever since, and is now prepping for the rematch, which will take place in Manhattan in May. Today, in this cramped lab at T.J. Watson, Deep and Deeper are playing their first father-son game, a sort of silicon Oedipal struggle. The first 15 moves are what chess types yawn at as "standard"--established openings. Very safe. No surprises...
...question isn't nervous, though--at least not yet. "I'll have to play well and have a couple of surprises, but I feel that my chances are still superior," Kasparov says over lunch in Manhattan the next day to an audience of six, including Tan. "I know quite a lot, and I'll control my temper and my psychology...
...nice tan now. That's nice. I'm not pale anymore," says Yeung, who is a Crimson editor...