I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.