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AI’s Grandmaster Status Overshadows Chess Scandal

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grandmaster, of cheating during their game at the Sinquefield Cup , in St. And so well do computers help in the home preparation of the opening, the early moves of a game, that players, including Carlsen, will sometimes deliberately play a second-best move just to force the opponents out of “book.”

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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