Paralympics 2012: Oscar Pistorius shows what Paralympians can
achieve  Advances in prosthetic limb technology may make it
possible for others to compete on a level playing field with
non-disabled athletes in the future Oscar Pistorius Oscar
Pistorius competed at the London 2012 Olympics with the same
design of prosthetics that he has used since 1996. Photograph:
Alexander Hassenstein/Getty  "It was my luck (perhaps my bad
luck) to be the world chess champion during the critical years
in which computers challenged, then surpassed, human chess
players," wrote Garry Kasparov in The Chess Master and The
Computer. "Before 1994 and after 2004 these duels held little
interest. The computers quickly went from too weak to too
strong. But for a span of 10 years these contests were
fascinating clashes between the computational power of the
machines (and, lest we forget, the human wisdom of their
programmers) and the intuition and knowledge of the
grandmaster."  Oscar Pistorius is used to questions. In fact, he
likes to