Monday, May 11, 2015

Deep Blue vs. Gary Kasparov

My first entry for my blog would be this one, and somewhat it is much as interesting not only for myself and for you guys who could look back in history. This topic of mine states about an incredible feat that technology could really beat the odds and could compete about the greatest in the world before and even today.
            One great example of what happened this day in history was that on May 11, 1997, a chess playing computer developed by scientists at IBM named “Deep Blue” defeated chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov and made him resign after just an incredible 19 moves. In addition to this, Kasparov lost twice with this thing. Kasparov was considered the greatest chess player in history going into his match with Deep Blue. Carnegie Mellon doctoral student Feng-hsing Hsu developed a chess-playing computer named “Chiptest” that was designed to play chess at a higher level than its predecessors. Hsu and a classmate went to work for IBM, and in 1989 they were part of a team led by developer C.J. Tan that was charged with creating a computer capable of competing against the best chess players in the world. The resulting supercomputer, dubbed Deep Blue, could calculate many as 100 billion to 200 billion moves in the three minutes traditionally allotted to a player per move in standard chess.
            Kasparov as great as him said after the match : “I just lost my fighting spirit”. The chess world could not believe about the result, but it’s the fact that closes it in the end.He is known for his unpredictable plays and has really unique tactics in competing with other chess great grand masters in the world.

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