PEOPLE : DEEP BLUE REBOUNDS IN GAME 2.Score one for the techies. IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: [ˈgarʲə ˈkʲɪməvʲə̈ʨ kʌˈsparəf]; Russian: on Sunday, evening their six-game series at one game apiece. Kasparov resigned after the computer's 45th move, which had positioned Deep Blue for a winning endgame Endgame blind and chair-bound, Hamm learns that nearly everybody has died; his own parents are dying in separate trash cans. [Anglo-Fr. Drama: Beckett Endgame in Weiss, 143] See : Death . The game lasted just short of four hours. Kasparov, a 34-year-old Russian, defeated Deep Blue in Saturday's opening game of the series, when the computer resigned after Kasparov's 45th move. ``It's clearly the best game that's ever been played against Kasparov by a computer,'' said Mike Valvo, an international chess master Noun 1. chess master - a chess player of great skill chess player - someone who plays the game of chess . Kasparov did not appear at a news conference after the game and he was not expected to discuss the loss. Joel Benjamin For the Broadway singer and dancer, see .
Joel Benjamin (born March 111964) is a chess Grandmaster and is currently the top-rated active chess player who was born in the United , a chess grandmaster who consulted with the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) team, was exultant. ``I feel great. This is what I've been working toward for eight months. . . . This was a game that any human grandmaster would have been proud to play. This was not computer chess The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Turk became famous before being exposed as a hoax. . This was real chess.'' Kasparov defeated the computer last year and says that barring human error, man will always be better than the machine at chess. But IBM technicians said they had improved Deep Blue since then - the machine can now examine an average of 200 million positions per second. On Sunday, the computer played white, which gave the machine the slight advantage of making the first move. After he opened with a relatively passive defense, Kasparov's position deteriorated between moves 28 and 34. The world champion took more than an hour to execute those moves and appeared very worried. Stewart engaged for newest `Trek' The captain will be back in uniform and in command for another voyage on the starship Enterprise. Patrick Stewart This article is about the actor. For the American soldier, see Patrick Stewart (soldier). For the actor who is sometimes credited as "Patrick Stuart", see James Patrick Stuart. Patrick Stewart is the first member of the ``Star Trek'' crew to agree to another tour of duty, signing up to play Capt. Jean-Luc Picard again in the ninth movie in the series, said executive producer Rick Berman
Richard Keith "Rick" Berman (born December 25, 1945 in New York, New York, U.S.) is an American television producer. . The new ``Trek'' movie, the third for Stewart, is being planned for release in November 1998, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the May 10 issue of TV Guide. ``The story being discussed is a high-concept idea that is very special - and it better be. After `Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. : First Contact,' it's going to be a major job to one-up ourselves,'' said Berman, referring to last year's hit entry in the series. Germans ask proof this Jackson's real Just looking like Michael Jackson isn't enough. Sometimes even he has to prove who he is. The pop singer went to Stadelheim prison in Munich, Germany, on Saturday to visit Marcel Avram, head of Mama Concerts, one of world's biggest concert promotion agencies. Avram is being held on suspicion of tax evasion The process whereby a person, through commission of Fraud, unlawfully pays less tax than the law mandates. Tax evasion is a criminal offense under federal and state statutes. A person who is convicted is subject to a prison sentence, a fine, or both. . Even though Jackson arrived with police cars escorting him through the prison's back gate, he had to show identification. Bill Gates' opulent home almost done After almost seven years of nails, concrete and wiring, Microsoft mogul Bill Gates' $50 million techno-mansion is ready to be lived in. Almost. ``The house is complete, the shell. It's all finish work now'' and landscaping, said Geoffrey Whitten, a Gates representative at the site in Medina, Wash, an affluent suburb east of Seattle. They've even started moving some furniture into the 40,000-square-foot dwelling on the shore of Lake Washington. But will enough of the house be ready for Gates' technology summit this week? Guests, including Vice President Al Gore and publishing magnate Steve Forbes, reportedly have been invited to dine at the mansion. Striking bricklayers may hold up work, part of a walkout that affects 30 projects across western Washington. ``We've heard about the fish fry on Thursday. But we're not interested in picketing unless they come to lay masonry,'' Jim Reynolds, secretary-treasurer of the bricklayers' local. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) A custom horn snakes out from a 1914 Rolls-Royce. The car was among 232 Rolls-Royces and Bentleys displayed Sunday in Newport Beach at the largest-ever parade of its type. The previous record, set last year, was for 154 of the stellar-priced cars at one event. Associated Press (2) JACKSON |
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