Word: championed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world champion, 26-year-old Garri Kasparov, coasted to two victories Sunday over Deep Thought, a chess-playing computer that can analyze more than 700,000 moves a second...
...champion said computers are moving in the right direction, and predicted machines will be able to beat strong grandmasters in two or three years...
David Challinor, 69, of the Potomac Boat Club of Washington won the men's veteran singles for the fifth consecutive year in 23:31.03. Karin Loewy of Philadelphia repeated as women's veteran singles champion...
...Elwood, the Irish novice sculls champion, won the club singles in 19:58.63. Kathy Steber of the Calgary Rowing Club won the women's division...
...crow -- or in this case the seagull -- flies, it is a mere eleven miles across San Francisco Bay from Candlestick Park, home of the National League pennant-winning Giants, to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, where the American League champion Athletics play. That distance is only a tad farther than the mileage between Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and the Brooklyn housing project where Ebbets Field used to be, sites of the last public- transit World Series back in 1956. This week the A's and Giants, having finished off their respective challengers from Toronto and Chicago, are launched...