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Although Harvard sports fans were mourning the Crimson's 34-19 defeat in football Saturday afternoon, they could at least take comfort in their school's decisive victory over the Elis in the annual Harvard-Yale chess match...
Just hours before the gridders took the field to the cheers of 40,000 fans, the five members of the Harvard chess team entered a quiet Science Center to go on to a 6-2 win against Yale...
Known traditionally as "the game before the Game," the Harvard-Yale chess match has taken place annually since 1985 as a prelude to the football game between the ancient rivals...
...taken from the ginkgo tree, that is now widely administered as a treatment for asthma and circulation disorders. But he was also honored last week for a broader intellectual achievement: pioneering "retrosynthetic analysis," an approach to building molecules that Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel- winning chemist himself, likens to a chess game with nature...
Corey taught a generation of chemists to think like those chess masters who start with their vision of a winning board position and then work backward. His method for breaking down compounds, bond by bond, into smaller and smaller components is so rigorously logical that it can be taught to a computer, although Corey says it will be some time before chemistry has the equivalent of a computerized Kasparov...