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Chess is Wichitan's tactic for life (Wichita Eagle)

Anthony Winn was a 13-year-old checkers whiz when he took on a chess whiz his own age and lost.

The other kid knew the principles of chess. Winn knew only how to move the pieces around on the board.

It changed his life.

Machine stares down man in museum show (San Francisco Chronicle)

In the spring of 1997, a supercomputer built by a team of IBM scientists stunned the world by beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov, considered one of the greatest chess players in history.

Deep Blue, as the machine was known, earned the distinction of being the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion.

This week, a section of the historic machine will be on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View as part of its new exhibit called Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess.

Life lessons from chess (Los Angeles Daily News)

Susan Polgar is passionate about the topic. "If women put their minds to it, there is no reason they can't be as good as the men," the 36-year-old mother of two says, with a conviction borne of her own achievements. "It is primarily a historical, social problem. I do believe women who really want to make it can make it."

Polgar is not talking about women in business, although she has become a successful entrepreneur in her own right. She is not talking about women and personal finance, although societal issues (for years, handling the finances was viewed as the "man's job") conspire to set women back.

For now Polgar is talking only about a game, one in which she has set numerous world records, including one in which I was a part.

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