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It plays checkers pretty well, but you want to ask it to play bridge? Until computers are capable of independent thought, there's no point in even talking about intelligence.'But what if a machine does become the best draughts player in the world?Will chess be next? With 10 to the 44th possible positions, chess is a considerably bigger problem.As for proceeding to the complexities of real life, Dr Schaeffer has still less faith in computers: 'The problems are so difficult that I don't think the things people are afraid of - like intelligent machines that can talk back and reason and do all sorts of things like the computer Hal in the film 2001 - will happen in my lifetime. Success, it concluded, 'would very much depend on the modernisation of production techniques, a considerable improvement in transport infrastructure and an efficient procurement system'.The former Soviet Union - which in 1984-85 imported a record 55.0 million tonnes of grain, 26 per cent of total global imports - bought an estimated 38.1 million (about 20 per cent) in 1991-92. They have been charged with fomenting and conducting armed rebellion, and could face the death penalty. 'They love anything traditionally British, particularly Daks leather goods and accessories.'(Photograph omitted). there was talk of a golf course, and all kinds of night-clubs up there.