EndGame: Challenging the Chess Masters
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An overview of the history
An overview of the history of computer chess, focusing on the matches between IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.
In 1989, IBM hired Deep Thought team members Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell and Thomas Anantharaman to develop a computer that would beat reigning World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Although Deep Thought lost to Kasparov in 1989, the match led the team to refine its software and add more custom processors. By 1996, it could examine 100 million chess positions per second, or about nine to eleven moves ahead.
That same year, Deep Thought was renamed Deep Blue and met Kasparov for a best-of-six games match. In the first game, Deep Blue made history by defeating Kasparov--marking the first time a current World Chess Champion had ever lost a game to a computer in a tournament setting--but Kasparov bounced back to win the match with a score of 4-2.
After defeating Deep Blue in 1996, Garry Kasparov issued a rematch challenge for the following year. To prepare, the team tested the machine against several Grandmasters, and doubled the performance of the hardware.
A six-game rematch took place in New York in May 1997. Kasparov won the first game but missed an opportunity in the second game and lost. Kasparov never recovered his composure and played defensively for the remainder of the match. In the last game, he made a simple mistake and lost, marking May 11, 1997, as the date on which a World Chess Champion lost a match to a computer.
There have since been two other matches between a computer and a World Chess Champion. Both have ended in a tie.
Created for the Computer History Museum exhibit "Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess". Be sure to check out the online exhibit on computer chess at: www.computerhistory.org/chess
Catalog number: 102651039
In 1989, IBM hired Deep Thought team members Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell and Thomas Anantharaman to develop a computer that would beat reigning World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Although Deep Thought lost to Kasparov in 1989, the match led the team to refine its software and add more custom processors. By 1996, it could examine 100 million chess positions per second, or about nine to eleven moves ahead.
That same year, Deep Thought was renamed Deep Blue and met Kasparov for a best-of-six games match. In the first game, Deep Blue made history by defeating Kasparov--marking the first time a current World Chess Champion had ever lost a game to a computer in a tournament setting--but Kasparov bounced back to win the match with a score of 4-2.
After defeating Deep Blue in 1996, Garry Kasparov issued a rematch challenge for the following year. To prepare, the team tested the machine against several Grandmasters, and doubled the performance of the hardware.
A six-game rematch took place in New York in May 1997. Kasparov won the first game but missed an opportunity in the second game and lost. Kasparov never recovered his composure and played defensively for the remainder of the match. In the last game, he made a simple mistake and lost, marking May 11, 1997, as the date on which a World Chess Champion lost a match to a computer.
There have since been two other matches between a computer and a World Chess Champion. Both have ended in a tie.
Created for the Computer History Museum exhibit "Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess". Be sure to check out the online exhibit on computer chess at: www.computerhistory.org/chess
Catalog number: 102651039
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