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October 31, 1976 PAGE 12 HAYS DAILY NEWS Mechanized Crossword Puzzler HOUSTON (UPI) - American computer experts, who say machines will never play chess as well as people, would settle for a program that could beat Its Russian counterpart next year. "They have three or four state-paid people working full time on their program," said David Levy, computer expert and international chess master. "I think it's going to be a hard fight between the strongest American program and the Russians." Levy was in Houston to direct the Association of Computer Machinery's U.S. tournament in which 11 programmed computers were linked via telephone lines to is proud to announce the association of Joe Norvell with our Real Estate Agency. terminals operated by humans interpreters'. The interpreter's were needed because the computers, scattered across the continent, don't speak the same language. An exchange of inputs, handled by interpreters, and the printout replies — "My move is P KB4-KB5 (meaning pawn from king-bishop four to king-bishop five). Your move." Chess 4.5, an eight-year-old program played- from a computer in Arden Hills, Minn., defeated Chaos, a four-year- old program played from a computer in Sunnyvale, Calif., for the title and the chance to play in the'world finale. For Fred Swartt, principal author of Chaos, it wasn't quite as bad as losing himself, but it was still losing. "You take it pretty personally when your program gets beat," Swartz said. "We've come in second four times." But Swartz, Larry Atkin, principal author of Chess 4.5, and Levy are in the game as < much to advance computer* science as to win. "Chess is a very difficult intellectual problem, and if you can solve it with a computer then you can use the same techniques to solve other problems, including planning," Swartz said. Levy said programs get more sophisticated each year. He predicted he'd lose his standing (5,000 bet he can beat any program written, possibly in the 1980s. But he said there will always be players at the grand master level much better than himself that computers will never be able to beat. "There'll never be a computer program capable of beating, say, Anatoly Karpov, the current world champion," Levy said. "Boris Spassky (former world champion) played a computer and won very easily. Computers are very bad, really, by human •standards. They're not flexible. They lack subjective judgmental ability." "Hogwash," retorted Lincoln Shannon, author of Chesstar, a newcomer at the tournament, which finished back in the pack. "Someday someone will put together a program using more than one computer, operating in parallel, that can beat a world champion. It's possible." 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(O 35?? Sales WASHINGTON (UPi) v- High unemployment may be driving Americans to hear) attacks, other fatal diseases, homicide, suicide, crime and mental illness, a congressional study reported Saturday, The study by Prof. M. Harvey Brenner .of Johns Hopkins University, prepared for Congress' Joint Economic Committee, was based on figures showing fluctuations in the unemployment rate, inflation and the level of real income between 1940 and 1973. Brenner compared those fluctuations with changes in seven "indicators of social stress"— rates of homicide, suicide, deaths from cardiovascular and kidney diesease, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver,, total deaths, the number of people sent to jail and admissions to mental hospitals. He said he found a "statistically significant" correlation between unemployment and all seven of those signs of public stress. For inflation and real in- tonic, however, he said the results were less clear and sometimes inconsistent. Brenner Was careful to note that his method of analysis did not establish that unemploy-f \mfent was a cause of tnes«:.{, Calamities, but merely that they are somehow*, '{statistically linked." !*W •To varying degrees, the rise? hi incidence of 'the personal}-,^ tragedies studied lags behind^ changes in unemployment, th^. study showed. Suicides peak a year, after spurts in jobles-'09 sness; fatal heart attacksrrt'f three\ years after. ) BreViner calculated that anj in unemployment increase of one per cent, or about a million persons}, when sustained fof>?* six years, is "associated'Vfifc with: —increases of 36,887 in total deaths, including 20,240 cardi- 'ovascular deaths, 920 suicides, 648 homicides, 495'deaths ( from cirrhosis Of >the liver. 33 —4,227 mental hospital admissions. 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Ford spokesmen said the recently , negotiated contract will boost Ford labor costs by $486 'million. Ford previously estimated the total cost of the. three-year pact at more than , $1 billion. ] Ford executives were confi- '> dent economic recovery will, continue. "Industrial production, employment and personal income have risen while savings are high and interest rates unexpectedly low," they said. "These factors provide a basis for further increases in business spending, residential construction and sales df consumer durables — in-' eluding cars and trucks." They said industrywide sales of cars and trucks this year would be about 13.4 million, up 21 per cent from last year, and predicted sales next year would near the 1973 sales record of 14.6 million cars and trucks. •Thi^jiiM$ter,.f>rpfits totaled coHipared &!jth;/$5i3 million (60 cents a share) on sales of $6.1 billion a year ago. Navy Requests More Fiqhters WASHINGTON (UPI) The F14 jet fighter plane is in deep water again—literally, this time —and the Navy is preparing to v step into congressional quicksand by seeking stepped up production of the airplane. Navy sources say the service wartts to expand total production of the carrier- based fighter;from 72 to 85 planes a year in its 1978 budget proposals. The plan is considered certain to bring opposition from congressional critics, who say the airplane is too expensive and -has been involved in a series, of crashes. Each F14 coming off the erf ) ctft )fJ3 ;nA <sV In the latest crash, the Navy still is trying to recover from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean an F14 which drove off the' flight deck of a carrier more, than a month ago. f Navy sources said jt appears the crash was caused by 91 a computer failure that jammed open an erigineol throttle,^he sixth out of 12 F14)I losses blamed on mechanical causes. 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