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The Cincinnati Enquirer NATION Saturday, February 10, 1996 A3 Where in the world is chess master Bobby Fischer? It's chess master ys. the computer Garry Kasparov, mankind's defender a Hungarian chess master who has spent time with the American. The former U.S. chess Wunder-kind apparently has been living here since 1992, when he emerged from 20 years of self-imposed isolation to play a rematch in Serbia against arch-foe Boris Spassky. The lure that finally brought the slippery Mr.

Fischer back to the surface: a $3 million prize. The September 1992 rematch and fat prize brought down the wrath of the U.S. government, BY SHANKAR VEDANTAM Knight-Ridder Newspapers PHILADELPHIA He isn't always a nice man. He can be "dogmatic, temperamental and sex-Hst. But in the week ahead, he MATTRESS EXPERTS PMICE WML SALE! MAKING THE COMPETITION NERVOUS" represents us all, and the belief that the grace of human thought "'can outstrip the calculations of a "machine.

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It caw malyze 100 million chess positions per second. The matches will be played with Mr. Kasparov sitting at the city's Convention Center. His moves will be called into the computer at IBM's labs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and the computer's responses will be phoned back. The match will be played according to tournament conditions, with each side getting about three minutes per move.

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The winner's prize is $400,000, which an IBM team will share if the machine wins. ble, but I believe it is not invincible," Mr. Kasparov said Friday. Chess is psychological warfare and it's hard to fight someone who is not bothered by the weather, the noise in the audience." A computer plays chess by trial and error. The difference is that the computer has speed; it increases the number of trials hugely and eventually finds good moves.

"What we've done with computer chess is get programs that play tremendously well, but they don't play like people play," said Monty Newborn, chairman of the chess committee of the Association for Computing Machines, which is co-sponsoring the match with IBM. used 3 drw. vertical file Steelcase 1601 Dana Ave mile west of 1-71 exit 5 9-6 Sat. 9-4 531-0900 American Express. You Want To Be Cft mil ijuvo uii an CITY AWNING Cincinnati, OH 45249 American Express.

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Deep Blue's share will be claimed by the IBM design team. So far, computers, which can Clinton: Dismissal for HIV illegal, cruel BY LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON The Associated Press WASHINGTON A new requirement to discharge military personnel with the AIDS virus is -unconstitutional, offensive and cruel, President Clinton declared a day before he was to sign a bill containing it. 1 He promised to fight the provi- "sion in Congress and the courts, but the administration said it would Z2)e enforced in the meantime. Mr.

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