Subject: Re: Book: Kasparov v. Deep Blue by Monty Newborn
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1997/05/20
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.programming,comp.lang.scheme,comp.edu,comp.ai.games,rec.games.programmer,rec.games.chess.misc
Message-ID: <5lrd8t$1kql@tokyo.engr.sgi.com>

John C Slimick <slimick+@pitt.edu> wrote:
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| For those who remember, we once had a spectator sport in this country
| called "air races" which were immensely popular, until after the second
| world war when the USAF had the technology to win every speed race,
| every time. The air races proceeded to go into oblivion by the midfifties.
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And recovered again. Last time I looked, the Reno Air Race
(one of the "biggies") was alive & well!


-Rob

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