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Checkers masters stared down their Armageddon a few years ago, when a powerful computer program named Chinook forged a tie with the second-best checkers player in the world, Don Lafferty.
The talk contains the following compelling and reassuring passage, about a transport helicopter pilot, who came up on the radio volunteering to go pick up a fighter pilot shot down over a heavy concentration of Iraqi troops: "You need to remember a Chinook is about the size of a double-decker London bus with props, and it doesn't have guns.
His whirling system of motors, levers, and microfilm is to the Web what Leonardo da Vinci's helicopters are to the Chinook CH-47.
Flat-Head , for example, refers to several tribes (Catawba, Chinook, Choctaw, Waxshaw, et al.) that once practised head-flattening; and the Yellowknife , an Algonquian people living east of Great Slave Lake, Canada, were so named from their use of copper implements: pedestrian names, these, in which inventiveness played no part.
A weaker version of Chinook had previously lost to the legendary Marion Tinsley, a retired university math teacher considered the greatest checkers player of all time, who had to withdraw from a 1994 rematch because of the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him.