When the fusillades finished, the championship went to Deep Junior 7, programmed by the Israeli team of Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, which won a playoff by 1 1/2- 1/2 against Shredder. This was the third title for Deep Junior 7, which also won in 1996 and 2001.
Shredder had won a game from Deep Junior 7 in the initial Swiss-system competition, and both players reached a 7 1/2-1 1/2 tie that set up the tie-breaker. But in the tie-breaker, Shredder played a serious theoretical error in the early middle game and never had a chance...
- CHESS: Computers Pulling Punches Against Their Own Kind, New York Times, August 18, 2002.
2. Education Secretary Arne Duncan pulled no punches in a high-profile address Thursday at the annual convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, proposing a series of policy changes that he said could rid college sports of the “tiny minority” of bad actors that “stains” its reputation.
Duncan, former co-captain of Harvard University’s basketball team and first-team Academic All-American, criticized the high-stakes recruiting wars that take place in sports like men’s basketball and football. He wants further rules protecting young students from college recruiters.
“We now have universities signing eighth graders to their colleges,” Duncan said. “I’m not sure how an eighth grader who doesn’t yet know where they’re going to go to high school can accurately and thoughtfully and strategically pick the best college program. I think we should slow down a little bit, slow down and think about doing that maybe in the sophomore year. Signing students in the eighth and ninth grade belies any common sense."
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