The History of Computer Chess ♟ ASMR Sleep Documentary

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00:00 intro
01:15 Blinkist Sponsor
02:00 1770 / The Mechanical Turk
05:12 Napoleon vs. The Turk
07:14 1819 / Babbage&Lovelace
10:26 1914 / Leonardo Torres
12:44 1948 / Alan Turing
16:32 TuroChamp vs. Kasparov
17:49 1949 / Claude Shannon
21:11 The Shannon Number
22:54 1956 / The MANIAC
24:44 MANIAC vs. Beginner
27:37 1956 / John McCarthy
28:46 Levy’s Bet
30:25 1974 / 1st World Computer Chess Championship
33:10 1974 / Ostrich vs. KAISSA
36:55 1977 / Duchess vs. KAISSA
40:21 1980 / Ken Thompson
41:22 Tablebases
44:06 549-move tablebase checkmate
45:08 1988 / ChessMaster
48:48 1989 / Deep Thought
51:40 1993 / the PGN-file and databases
53:31 1996 / Deep Blue
54:23 Deep Blue vs Kasparov 1996 game 1
59:13 1997 / Deep Blue Rematch
01:00:10 Deep Blue vs Kasparov 1997 game 1
01:02:20 Deep Blue vs Kasparov 1997 game 2
01:07:44 2003+

References:

1770
Schönbrunn Palace: https://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/
Wolfgang von Kempelen: https://history-computer.com/wolfgang...
The Mechanical Turk: https://interestingengineering.com/th...
Napoleon’s chess: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/e...
Napoleon vs. The Turk: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...

1819
Charles Babbage: https://www.computerhistory.org/babba...
Ada Lovelace: https://mathwomen.agnesscott.org/wome...

1914
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo: https://history-computer.com/leonardo...
El Ajedrista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajed...

1948
Alan Turing: http://cs.furman.edu/~ktreu/fyw-turin...
TuroChamp: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Turo...

1949
Claude Shannon: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Clau...
Shannon’s paper:  https://vision.unipv.it/IA1/Programmi...
The Shannon Number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon...

1956
MANIAC & Los Alamos Chess: Reddit: hjke7vj
John Mccarthy: http://jmc.stanford.edu/
MANIAC vs Beginner: https://lichess.org/study/S7jX2VZO/Ba...

1968
David Levy: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Davi...
Levy’s Bet: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Davi...

1974
1st World Computer Chess Championship: https://www.chessprogramming.org/WCCC...
KAISSA: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Kaissa
Ostrich vs KAISSA: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...

1977
Duchess vs. KAISSA: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...

1980
Ken Thompson: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Ken_...
Belle: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Belle
Tablebases: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Thom...
549-move tablebase checkmate: https://tb7.chessok.com/probe/3/65

1988
ChessMaster: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Ches...

1989
Deep Thought: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Deep...
Feng-Shiung Hsu: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Feng...
Murray Campbell: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Murr...
Deep Thought vs Kasparov 1989 games: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Kasp...
Herbert Simon (psychologist): https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/He...

1993 (1980+)
Chess Databases: Let's talk about that - The Origins o...
The PGN-file: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portabl...

1996
Deep Blue: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm10...
Deep Blue vs. Kasparov 1996 match game 1: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...

1997
GM Joel Benjamin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Be...
GM Nick De Firmian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_de...
Kasparov vs. Deep Blue 1997 games: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Kasp...

2003
Kasparov vs. Deep Fritz/ 3XD Fritz:  https://www.chessprogramming.org/Kasp...
Kasparov vs. Deep Junior: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Kasp...
Deep Junior: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Junior
Deep Fritz: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Frit...

Thanks to:
Computer History Museum - computerhistory
Cambridge University - @cambridgeuniversity
ChessBase - @chessbasegmbh
Robert Pieraccini - rpieracc
Alan B. Carr - @alanbcarr
City of Stars - Reddit: city-of-stars
Squakenet - squakenetcom
Cyberal20 - @cyberal20
Twistedlot - @twistedlot

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