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...town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians are chess players, and the Arabs are basically...
...cycling is what kids do after Santa Claus brings them a bike and before they get their driver's license. Few of them are aware that the sport's greatest heroes race in teams and can make as much as a star quarterback. A subtle, rolling chess game in which teammates devise strategies to wear out and hold back opponents, share the fatigue of breaking a head wind or control the pace to protect a team leader, cycling is built on intricacies as unknown to most Americans as particle physics...
...gala grudge rematch for Soviet Chess Champions Gary Kasparov, 23, the . current world titleholder, and Anatoly Karpov, 35, who reigned from 1975 to 1985. They had played each other a record 72 times in 14 months: a five-month, 48-game marathon that ended without a winner in February 1985, and a second match that finished last November in a smashing 13-11 victory for the brash, high-living Kasparov. Last week they began Round 3 in London, with Games 73, 74 and 75 (all draws). But not before an opening round of press-conference publicity, in which Kasparov, asked...
...President Reagan to the letter that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent him in June. For the first time in the history of nuclear diplomacy, the U.S. has been responding to Soviet proposals rather than taking the initiative. Moreover, the American response has frequently been delayed, tentative and ambiguous. In chess terms, it is as though, after years of playing white, making bold opening moves, the U.S. has elected to play black, letting the U.S.S.R. advance its pieces toward the center of the board while the U.S. counters with pawns...
With its black-tinted panels and pulsing red indicator lights, it bears a striking resemblance to Joshua, the fictional computer that plays chess and thermonuclear war in the movie WarGames. But this is the real thing. Inside a 5-ft. Lexon plastic cube is a powerful new computer called the Connection Machine, which not only looks different from most mainframes, it is different...