Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's lacrosse team is seeded eighth in the NCAA Division I tournament, and will play the ninth-seeded U.S. Naval. Academy Wednesday in the first round at Ohiri Field. The winner will play the top-ranked Syracuse Orangeman at the Carrier Dome...
...Harvard women's lacrosse team can find solace in the fact that the squad that eliminated it from the NCAA Tournament is undefeated and the top-ranked team in the land...
...hotel ballroom near Chicago's O'Hare Airport is crammed with rows of banquet tables covered with paper chessboards. In silent confrontation, 700 miniature armies face one another across half as many checkered playing fields. The National Open, a major annual chess tournament, is about to begin. A short, plump man dressed completely in black calls the contestants to order. "If you lose a game," he wryly suggests, "congratulate your opponent. Do not disturb the tournament by exploding, screaming or weeping loudly." On hearing this, Hans Berliner breaks into a grin. A former world chess-by-mail champion, Berliner will...
During the tournament, Berliner communicates with his electronic protege via a laptop computer patched into a telephone line. While Hitech "thinks," Berliner watches the moves being considered as they scroll rapidly down the laptop's screen. In one second, Hitech can analyze as many as 160,000 possibilities. "Hitech," beams Berliner through thick-framed glasses, "is two orders of magnitude smarter than any other computer chess player in the world...
From 1984-1987, Harvard drew the tournament's top-seed in its first-round match. This year, the NCAA changed the format so teams seeded from 13-20 would play each other in the first round, while the top 12 seeds all received first-round byes. This year, Harvard, seeded 20th, fell to 13th-seeded Trinity...