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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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“It is a math equation, to some extent,” said Mike Chernoff, the Cleveland Guardians’ general manager. “You have to fill the innings and you have to fill them with high-quality guys." Illustration: ...