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2020: Rise of the Machines

by James Grosjean

Count me among the Netflix drones who loved The Queen’s Gambit (2020), but I’ve always been a chess enthusiast. During my college years, I probably ate a thousand chocolate croissants while watching the quirky, magnificent Murray Turnbull (aka “The Chess Master”) take on all comers in the town square—“$2, refund if you win or draw.” It was my honor to capture a photo of the great Karpov framed by the stained glass of Memorial Hall when he did a 40-board simul on campus. I was part of the student press when Kasparov made his then-controversial statement that a computer would be grand champion before a woman would be.

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Sydney Phillips, Come Play Blackjack!

Sydney Phillips, a 7th-grader at St. Theresa’s private Catholic school in New Jersey, wanted to play on the boys basketball team after the girls team was discontinued. After the school said no, Sydney’s dad sued. So the school just expelled Sydney, and her sister, too, via a snotty letter! Unfair! Am I the only one whose blood is boiling right now? Sydney, if you need a summer job in six years, look us up! Continue reading Sydney Phillips, Come Play Blackjack!