in backgammon.) that patience has its li and dozens of programs machines. the other hand, have continued virtually since but the best human players can still beat computer opponents. The gap is closing, however, and some experts believe that in a few years a computer will be world champion. (A computer already has that honor ‘The Canadian Press The personal computers popping up on desks and in homes across North America have the “brainpower” of monster-size machines 20 years ago, but are they smart enough to play a good game of chess? Not yet, it seems. In faet, chess is too complicated for even the world’s biggest computers to master. Efforts to develop a perfect chess-playing machine screen pieces. The i used by the player to make hie moves. With this program, there's never a problem if you're stumped for a move, because the computer will suggest one if you ask it to. There is also no annoying fussiness about rules. If you want to take back a move, that’s OK. In fact, take back as many moves as you like until you've re- turned to a position you're satisfied with. SWITCH SIDES And if your game is really hopeless, the computer will switch sides with you, letting you play with the better pieces. (Try to find a human opponent who'll do that.) You can also ask the computer to replay the entire game on the screen so you can see how you got yourself into that mess. The computer is a tireless player and doesn’t care if you pull the plug when it’s winning. But in some respects ‘3 were the best Chess players are known as a patient lot, but even its. One author has calculated that the number of possible moves in an average game of chess is so enormous, it would take a computer longer than the lifespan of the universe to analyse them all. But the fascination of playing chess — and testing the powers of human logic — against a computer persists, are available that will turn popular brands of home computers into chess-playing OPPONENTS OBLIGE Consumers hoping to find out what its like to play a Soviet grandmaster should not waste their money. On they'll probably never find a more obliging opponent than their computer. a human is preferable. The computer lacks the capacity to learn from its mistakes. If it falls into a trap once, it will fall into the same trap over and over again. That flaw, combined with a limited repertoire of opening moves in its memory, gives the machine an element of predictability, in con trast with the human player's capacity to make moves that surprise an opponent. How strong is the computer's game? At the highest of nine available levels, the program is analysing three to six moves ahead and “thinking” for up to six minutes before making its move. “Not only can it play good defence, but it also can be a true terror on the attack,” the Odesta instruction manual says. At its best, the program could probably beat the average non-tournament player. At the lowest levels, it makes its move instantly, without much calculation, and could be defeated by a child who knows the rules of the game and a little basic strategy. Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN Certitied General Acc © 1904 Universal Press Syncicate 7.17 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants WHAT DO THEY MEAN? Unlocking our dreams TORONTO (CP) — The key to unlocking the mysterious meaning of dreams is to pay attention and be willing to face what the dream is saying, a Toronto psychotherapist says. The “only person who can interpret a dream accurately is the dreamer,” Jerry Steinberg said. “Lean help a dreamer decide what the dream means, but I can't just hear a dream and figure it out.” Dreams are the “royal road to the unconscious” as pioneer psychotherapist Sigmund Freud put it, and they reflect what we're thinking, making us feel great. whether it’s troubling us or If you have something on your mind before you go to sleep, chances are you'll dream about it. If you have recurring nightmares, your psyche is trying to tell you to get some help to work out whatever is not going right in your life. If you're having whimsical, Steinberg says if you can't fun dreams, enjoy them. remember your dreams, remind yourself before you go to bed at night that you will remember When you wake up, remain still for a few minutes while you try to recall your dream. Write it down if you think you'll forget, and mull it over later. “Going through the dream with a friend is a good idea,” says Luke De Sadeleer, a communications counsellor who leads a dream workshop course in Toronto. “Or re-enact the dream and get a closer look at the faces and things people were saying EXPO 86 Even if you can only Too many people can be ‘too much’ VANCOUVER (CP) When it comes to Expo 86 too many people can be too much of a good thing. The world’s fair, with a theme of transportation and communication, is doing its revenue budgeting based on what officials believe is a conservative estimate of 15 million visits and five million said Jess-Ketchum, vice president of communica tions with Expo. But it broad range of variation. It's building the site to com fortably handle 130,000 peo ple a day or a total of about 22 million people over the run of the fair However is allowing for a Expo has sur eys that project as many as 28 million people will attend I personally don't think be good for said Ketchum in a recent interview. “You get to where your com 28 million w the fair. the point munity and your site can't handle that number of visi tors comfortably You don't want to get to the point where you have five hour lineups to get into the pavilions and you can't get to the washrooms and you can't get anything to eat Montreal's Expo 67, which recorded an astonishing 50 million visits — about 20 mil lion more than anticipated biamed some of its $280 mil lion-defieit. on the larger than-expeeted crowds Expo 86 officials say their fair will be just as enter taining and interesting as Expo 67 (even though the Vancouver site is only one tenth the size of Montreal's, the display space will be comparable). But they don't expect the same number of visits as Expo 67 because the Montreal fair had the densely populated eastern seaboard to draw on Another part of Expo 67's financial problem stemmed from the fact that 12 million people were responsible for the fair's 50 million visits. Fair officials found that re turn visitors did not spend the same amount of money as first-time visitors. Ketchum said Expo has some ability to control the number of people attending the fair by the amount of ad. vertising it runs in the months prior to opening. “If our surveys tell us that we're going to be getting too many we could always cut back on the ad campaign.” And admission prices may be something of a deterrent as well Expo 67 charged an’ adult admission of $2.50, a seven day pass sold for $12 and a seasons pass cost $35. Expo 86 has not set its ad- mission fees yet but it is con- sidering a one-day adult 9d mission of $20 or $25 and a season's pass for $100 or $125. remember a little piece of the dream, by working with that piece you can usually remember the rest.” When you're trying to figure out what the dream means, don't take everything that happened in your dream literally. Try to apply events in your dream to events in your waking life, and figure out what the dream is telling you, De Sadeleer said. Dreams may seem bizarre, but Steinberg said thi because dreams have a rationality and congruity of their own. “If you look at it that way, you could say that dreams aren't bizarre, our norma! thoughts are,” he said. “Our dreams have an internal integrity and sometimes they don't make sense because we don't understand them.” SEEMS NORMAL While you're dreaming though, all of the crazy things that happen seem normal. As an active participant in the dream, you don’t question when you are suddenly able to fly, or when you start a conversation in one room and are trans ported magically to a different location. It’s only after you wake up that you think the dream events are out of the ordinary Dreams begin during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep, and though some have a hard time remem. bering their dreams, everybody does dream. For roughly 10 minutes at a time, the visible fluttering of eyes beneath the lids heralds the beginning of a dream. This phase is followed by about an hour of calm slumber, called the D state, and that is when you dream. The cycle repeats itself two or three times a night, but often, only the last dream of the night is easy to recall Though themes are similar, different people don’t have exactly the same dreams. A common dream theme is this classic: someone is chasing you down a hall and you can't run fast enough to get away; or, your bed if flying down a hill and you can't stop it from crashing. If you're having a variation on that dream, Steinberg said, it may mean something is happening in your life over which you feel you have no control. The dream is pointing this out and encouraging you to gain control. Steinberg said that if you think enough about the problem and consciously tell yourself you want to solve it in your dreams, you may find yourself dreaming a solution one night. Watch for those dreams and remember them, he said. De Sadeleer said dreams act to balance out our lives. Aggressive people may find themselves being stepped on in their dreams, while shy people may become more outgoing CHRISTINA LAKE ALPINE RESORT BEACH AREA EXCELLENT BUYS ON FOLLOWING: 1 — 2 beS OLD cobin — $30,000 3 — 1 bedroom SOLD — $21,000 each 6 — 1 bedroom apts $11,000 ea. 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The Jackpot pool of $5,486,111 goes to the holder of a single ticket bought in The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial Lottery draw is 1481667. Quebec. RY ys Castlégar News CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1984 WEATHERCAST Sunday will be sunny with a tew cloudy periods, and a possibility of isoloted thunder storms later in the day. Predicted high is 34 Mondays weather will be similor, with a 20 percent chance both days) Weather become cooler by Wed 2 Sections (A & B) OOPs . . . Const. Terry Link of the Castlegar RCMP inspects canopy at the Monte Carlo that partially collapsed when a driver backed against it with his car Wednesday afternoon Cashews Photo by Adrion Chomberio:n Hydro set to slash staff VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. Hydro is preparing for new staff reductions and service cuts as part of its plan to cut expenses by up to 15 per cent A memo issued to employees of the utility says the move is prompted by cost inereases — including the cost of repaying money borrowed in the United States — that are “dramatically worse” than anticipated Hydro's plan is to reduce overall expenditures by cutting what company président Northan Olsen calls “con trollable or discretionary expenses,” which include employees. If we reduce our discretionary ex penses, it is bound to have an effect on the services we provide,” Olsen said. He could not’say where the service cuts will come. However, Olsen disputed a p: blished estimate that 1,300 additional em ployees may be laid off. He said it is too early to say how many more jobs will be lost at Hydro — which already has cut its work force by more than 2,000 in the past 18 months to about 8,000. Anne Harvey, president of the Office and Technical Employees Union, local 378, said any loss of jobs at Hydro is a result of financial mismangement “We don't see why our members and the general public should have to suffer on account of financial mismanagement on the part of Hydro’s board of dir ectors,” she said. Olsen said every effort will be made to minimize possible effects on the public “There's a limit to what you can do. he said. “You have to keep lights on and the gas burning and you have to make sure repairs are serviced The memo that Olsen sent to Hydro employees on budget restraint says “We have now had a quick look at pre liminary updated figures for the next three years — and the results are dramatically worse than we predicted a few months ago.” Hydro's original three-year financial plan had estimated that the value of the Canadian dollar would fluctuate between 82 and 83 cents U.S. Cur rently, the dollar is worth 76 cents U.S. With a loan of $3.58 billion in U.S dollars, the utility must pey another $12 million a year in debt servicing charges for every one-eent drop in the Canadian dollar Harvey said Hydro doubled the amount borrowed in U.S. funds be tween 1981 and 1983 despite the in stability of the Canadian dollar ulroney uoyed by new TORONTO (CP) Conservative Leader Brian Mulroney, buoyed by a national poll showing his party has a 19-point lead over the Liberals, told enthusiastic crowds Saturday “a new wave” is coming Sept. 4. “We're gonna form a new majority.” he shouted at a campaign stop in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North. “I think of what's going on in Quebec this morning and Andre Ouellet. He's not having coffee this morning.” Ouellet, labor minister in Prime Minister Turner's cabinet, is the Que- bee campaign manager for the Lib erals, in charge of maintaining the party's 74-of-75-seat lock on the pro- vincial vote. Mulroney seemed to be trying to rein in his enthusiasm about a Southam News poll released Friday which indi. cated the Tories have a solid lead nationally over the Liberals. The poll, taken immediately after two nights of televised debates by the three party leaders, indicates 51 per cent of decided voters intend to vote Conservative. Thirty-two per cent said they would vote for the Liberals and 15.6 per cent for the New Democrats. * Ut those’ figures hold true on voting day, it,would mean a Tory majority governthent, but 31 per cent of the 1,969 Canadians polled were still un decided “I've never been exultant when polls go up nor have I been craven when they go down,” Mulroney said, em asizing the Tories will continue BRIAN MULRONEY ‘wave’ coming “working very, very hard to be worthy of this kind of support.” ASKED IN QUEBEC The poll also indicated the Tories are ahead in Quebec, with 49 per cent of the decided vote, compared with 37 per cent for the Liberals. However, 37 per cent of the Quebec respondents said they were undecided on how they will vote. Mulroney, acknowledging that Que- bee is “a historic challenge” for his party, conceded the poll results show- ing the Tories leading the Liberals in that province are surprising A Mulroney aide admitted earlier that Conservative organizers were continued on poge A3 Astronaut to arrive here on Wednesday By CasNews Staff Castlegar residents will have a chance to meet and speak with one of Canada’s first space shuttle astronauts this week Byarni Tryggvason will be in the West Kootenay for 1'/ days, arriving Wednesday afternoon and leaving Friday morning. He will fly into Castlegar Wednesday and leave almost immediately by charter plane for Nakusp where he will attend a no-host dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Leyland Hotel. He will return to Castlegar that evening where he will stay overnight, continuing to Trail the following morning to address a Rotary luncheon at noon in the Riverbelle Restaurant. He will be back in Castlegar for another no-host dinner, this time at the Hi Arrow Hotel at 7 p.m Friday morning he will finish his trip in Nelson with a breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Lord Nelson Hotel. He leaves at 11 a.m. by plane for Vancouver where he will unveil the Pacifie Nationa] Exhibition's full-scale model of the space shuttle Columbia which will be on display at the fair. Tryggvason is an Ieeland-born aero- dynamics scientist who will be a payload specialist on one of the upcoming space shots. He was one of six Canadians selected from more than 4,300 applicants to train for the space Program. ~ A spokesman for Kosten West MP Lyle Kristiansen — berg gs ar range the astronaut’s visit to West Kootenay — said the public is en couraged to meet the astronaut and discuss anything they want with him. Tryggvason will show slides and speak for about 20 minutes before the floor will be open to questions. The event is billed as non-political. The r Staff Writer shirt, and shorts. headquarters — the literature is stacked on the floor campaign manager. He introduces himself as Glenn Suggitt, and excuses himself to wipe the sweat from his brow — he's_just arrived for the day's work on his 10-speed. Suggitt’s entrance Gites in with the NDP campaign is relaxed.Other cam. paign workers, like Suggitt, are dressed casusily. Party By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN The campaign manager for NDP Kootenay West. candidate Lyie Kristiansen saunters into the NDP. head- quarters on Baker Street in Nelson wearing tennis shoes, vi But appearances are sometimes deceiving. Suggitt, 33, usually works ap an electrical contractor, but has practically given that up to put in 10- to 12-hour days in as He says the campaign strategy is “hard work,” with ‘Castlegar. ind the candidates receives only $500 for expenses. Although he “still has time to squeeze in the odd bit of work,” Suggitt’s losing earnings from his business. And the hours are long. a special emphasis on having Kristiansen do lots of can lot of excitement. It’ assing. learning experience about polities,” says Suggitt. “I enjoy cei ee Canes isn't a lot of interest in it.” public meetings,” Suggitt. ‘Other pr + i plans include having Kristiansen While the inside pages are identical for all seven “te areas, thefront pages focus on the regional concerns of each place, said Suggitt. He says. unlike some campaign literature, people actually seem to be reading the news paper Tt was a real big hit.” with it.” This isn't Suggitt's first time as campaign manager last year he organized Nelson Creston MLA Lorne And ince Nicholeotfs provincial campaign Suggitt’s worked in various elections vassing organizer. But aside from commitment to the party. why does he do it? ‘Suggitt anys he ien't paid, and for the entire election, said Suggitt potential People went 1979, n NDP can- Others working for the NDP are doing it for similar reasons, Suggitt suggests. And {t's not a bad way to get inte polities — either working within the NDP organ ization on a provincial or federal level, or to upgrade your “track record” if you're interested in running as = party candidate for public office, he adds. os # @ Mark McEwan, « lawyer, is the for Liberal candidate Jean Turnbull, and is also riding association president for the Liberals in Kootenay West. continued on poge AZ electrical contracting interesting work. it's a manager oo sassasamiomtancst