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...human world champion managed to lock the pawns in the center of the board, depriving the tactical monster of the open lines it needed for a flashy attack. After only two and half hours of play, the Moscow grand master offered the Hamburg computer a draw on the twenty-eighth move and Deep Fritz immediately accepted. With the score now tied at three and a half points apiece, the eight-game match will be decided in the final confrontation on Saturday. Four hundred thousand dollars is riding on the game; the king of Bahrain will pay Kramnik $1 million...
...eighth and final game of their two-week competition in Bahrain, the exhausted human world champion and the unflappable computer agreed to a draw on the twenty-second move. The see-saw-like match - Kramnik dominated the first half and Deep Fritz rallied in the second half - ended up a tie, four games to four, and therefore did not resolve the burning question of whether man or machine plays better chess. Kramnik wants a rematch, but before he gets another shot, Garry Kasparov, his former teacher and arch rival, will take on one of Deep Fritz's cousins, the Israeli...
...lone clean moment was Fritz’s eighth goal of the season, the second highest total on the team. He also shares the team lead in shot percentage with 33 percent...
...Lightweight Fours, the Black and White started sixth, but once again trailed by nearly 30 seconds at the end of the first leg. The team spent much of its time moving up and down between sixth and eighth place before finally settling into eighth, nearly 90 seconds off the lead...
...shutout over Yale (7-2-1, 1-1-1) was the second straight Harvard victory over an opponent it had trailed in the Northeast rankings. Harvard (8-3-1, 2-0-1), ranked eighth entering the week, beat third-ranked Holy Cross on Tuesday prior to Saturday’s victory over the fourth-ranked Elis...