In nine rounds of blitz on Thursday, Kasparov came away with only one win and several frustrating losses.
"Basically, everyone agrees that you should exercise your mind every day to keep it active," is how Terry Stickels, author of the Alzheimer's Association's "the BIG Brain Puzzle Book," put it when I called him between rounds of Blitz the other day.
When I'm at my desk working, I have started to allow myself a break every few hours to play an online round of Scrabble Blitz.
By the fourth round of Dutch Blitz I was shellshocked and visibly sweating.
But that was before I got a cellphone and a laptop computer, and before I started being constantly interrupted by text messages and e-mail messages whenever I was trying to play a round of online Scrabble Blitz and talk on the phone during that three-episode stretch I spent watching "The Office" the other night.
There are four rounds in a match of Blitz, where two teams of four computer or human players score points for each energized Blitz disc thrown through their opponent's hoop, which is eight feet off the ground.
Hampered by a strained oblique muscle, Beckett was hit hard by the Los Angeles Angels in the previous round of the playoffs and was blitzed by Tampa Bay in Game 2 of this series last Saturday, yielding eight earned runs and three home runs while failing to get out of the fifth.
How did Gizmo become the poster kitten for the newest round of anger over the city's supposed ticketing blitz (a blitz that statistics indicate does not exist)?
If Anand and Gelfand had finished the rapid round in a tie, they would have moved on to sets of blitz games.
With an altered lineup, a revamped defensive strategy and an invigorated attitude, UConn (32-1) Boston Universityiversity, 91-44, in the first round of the East Regional before 8,647 at Gampel Pavilion.
