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To: TobagoJack who wrote (58009)	11/16/2009 9:52:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217548

TJ, you'd think that with all those brilliant Made in China Go players, there would be one who would be capable of out-thinking at least some of the freedom-loving westerners who excel at chess. Not that they should take chess up in earnest, but just for a week or two to show the likes of Kasparov, Bobby Fisher or whoever is currently pretty good at chess how to do it right. On the other hand, it might be that you are indulging in some vacuous intellectual wine snobbery. Perhaps it's not quite as easy as it seems. Meanwhile, perhaps aircraft carriers are no longer suitable for modern wars and are just entertainment for second world war sailors to play in. For a fraction of the cost of an aircraft carrier fleet, I dare say the USA could come up with swarms of Predator style devices to cloud the skies. Sizes might range from 500 grams to 10 tons. It's not certain that the USA is as dependent on WWI and WWII technology as it seems from the armadas of steel floating around and under the oceans. Imagine swarms of annoying submarine devices cluttering the coastline. Cyberspace lends itself to DARPA games too. If it wasn't all so ridiculous and wasteful, it could even be fun. Mqurice PS: I have not asked Google who the current world chess champions are so for all I know the top 10 players are in fact second division Chinese Go players who want to win in a sideline sport of less rigour. ... edit: Cool, look who it is en.wikipedia.org That fits my theory on where the world champion creative, imaginative, super horsepower brainpower originated from [a hybrid of north-west Indian/bedouin/Moroccan types]. Garry Kasparov, [note his original name, Garry Kimovich Weinstein, ] who was also quite good at chess, has not got pure Russian genealogy either by the look of him. He has [I think] got a good dose of the right stuff from the specified area. Bingo: <Garry Kasparov was born Garry Weinstein (Russian: ????? ?????????) in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, to an Armenian mother and Jewish father.[8] > Google is even smarter than them. Note that computer chess players beat such human journeymen, though Kasparov said they wouldn't and couldn't.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (58009)	11/17/2009 2:41:17 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217548

>>China’s New Missile May Create a ‘No-Go Zone’ for U.S. Fleet<< So what? The USA and USSR spent hundreds of billions arming for war against each other and never fired a shot. To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, the whole of Taiwan isn't worth the titanium bones of a single American UAV. Meanwhile, China has an actual shooting enemy of sorts... Pirates Attack (Hong Kong-registered) Oil Tanker 1,000 Miles Off Somali Coast news.ino.com China wants to take a lead role in anti-piracy operations off the Somalia coast, underscoring Beijing's desire for greater influence in Africa's affairs and global diplomacy. telegraph.co.uk