Well done, runner, horse, and canter, all brought together in a short paragraph even if none is a propos the others.
BTW, Andy Beyer, the author was a classmate, but I didn’t know him well. —Barry On Jun 1, 2018, 5:51 PM -0400, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com>, wrote: > Nothing has appeared here for awhile as far as I know. > > This morning at "physical" Friam I mentioned that in 1967 a research > organization that I worked for hired a young guy as a "runner". He carried > boxes of cards and printer output between our offices and the University of > Pittsburgh computer center. In the meantime, he was a chess master and could > beat everyone in the office simultaneously while blindfolded. His father was > Cantor, apropos of nothing. Here is a link I found: > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1979/02/01/chess-player-wins-horse-on-first-trygame-player-lowers-odds/e8a02f9b-bf2f-4194-913e-b8e582908aff/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4e7c416473b8 > > Frank > > ---- > Frank Wimberly > > www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 > > Phone (505) 670-9918 > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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