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The football season may have been a so- so affair, but then so was the computer's. Dartmouth Time-Sharing finished its chess season, played in both toto and absentia November 10 through 12 at the National Computer Chess Tournament in San Diego, with a 2-2 record.

DTS won over Michigan and Columbia, lost to Univac and Northwestern, the champion for several years running. The latter was a particular disappointment, in that Dartmouth last year was the first contestant ever to gain as much as a draw against the champ and this year lost after early "establishing a strong attack."

One beguiling note in the report: "While one entrant arrived (with its computer) in a suitcase, the tournament normally involves humans at terminals acting as communications devices located around North America." Who - or what - was the "it" that - or who - brought the computer in a suitcase?

"Computer jocks," competitors and programmers, sport a stylized "K" and theirKeiwit user numbers on "varsity" T-shirts.

Rhodes Scholar Christopher Peisch setsthe pace in cross-country as well.