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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...
...peer out of my Leverett window and watch intently as the snow swoons and finally falls to Memorial Drive and settles on top of the benches that line the Charles River, I think back on how many tan faces, mine among them, spot classrooms on these first days back after spring recess...
...brown--and somewhat orange--among us contrast noticeably more with the white blanket covering fair Harvard. Where have the tan been this last week and what have they been doing on spring break...
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...
...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...