Garry Kasparov is a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest human
chess players in the world. He is highest rated on the FIDE January
2005 list at 2804, and he is the highest rated player ever with his
2851 ELO in 1999. He was classical world chess champion from 1985
until 2000. Over the last decade, he has played a series of matches
against IBM-built chess machines, including Deep Blue and X3D Fritz.
Kasparov, who announced his retirement from serious chess on March 10
2005, has been credited with the invention of Advanced Chess, as a new
form of chess in which a human and a computer join their forces.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1921:
The Hashemite Emirate of Transjordan, now Jordan, was established.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transjordan)
1945:
World War II: The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald)
1951:
Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas
MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur)
1965:
Fifty-one tornadoes struck six Midwestern states in the United States
during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday_Tornado_Outbreak)
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Wikiquote of the day:
"Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of
opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to
remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true
liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and
character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and
unobstructed'." -- Charles Evans Hughes
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes)