nanaxtrac.blogg.se

However, difficult chess programs remain in wide demand as chess masters used them to improve and refine their games. Today, a chess-playing computer is no longer unique. Garry Kasparov played a match against Fritz in 2003 that ended in a draw. Fifteen years after the famous chess match, they told reporters that what Kasparov had taken to be intelligent human intervention was actually nothing more than a bug in the coding.ĭeep Blue was followed by Fritz, a German chess program. Interestingly, what Kasparov claimed to be a sophisticated move on part of Deep Blue was nothing of the sort, according to the computer’s programmers. Also, unlike humans, Deep Blue stood in no danger of tiring from an entire day of chess playing and making mistakes due to fatigue, frustration, and anxiety. Kasparov, on the other hand, had no inkling of the computer’s game and the modification in between the games further put him at sea.ĭeep Blue was capable of thinking six to eight moves ahead, sometimes even twenty or more moves ahead, while, according to Kasparov, he was accustomed to thinking three or five moves ahead. They also tweaked and modified the program in between games. Deep Blue’s programmers had studied his past games and strategies and had altered their program algorithms to adapt to his style. Also, he was placed at a disadvantage with the machine. Several chess masters, who have studied the match, feel that Garry Kasparov wasn’t at his very best during the match and made a few regrettable opening mistakes. IBM continued to claim though that it was a historic man versus machine match that the machine ultimately won. Instead, they retired and dismantled their digital champion. The company refused to let Kasparov see their computer logs, however, and also turned down his demand for a rematch. IBM denied it had cheated and maintained that its computer program developers had only modified the program, which the game rules allowed them to do. Garry Kasparov didn’t think it had and accused Deep Blue and IBM of cheating.Īccording to Kasparov, the computer showed such unexpectedly creative and sophisticated moves in the second game that it was probable that, in violation of the rules, human chess players had dipped their oars into the chess game. Whether it won the match fair and square is another matter and a subject of controversy. This time around, in May 1997, Deep Blue won the six-game encounter with a 3.5-2.5 win. He had already announced to the world that there wasn’t a machine around that could beat him.Īfter the defeat, IBM took their computer back for a serious upgrade, contracted a chess player, Grandmaster Joel Benjamin, to help them refine Deep Blue’s opening book, and then contacted Garry Kasparov for a rematch the following year. Not in the least the Grand Master himself. Nobody was surprised that the reigning world champion won. Of the remaining five games, Garry Kasparov won two and three ended in draws. The computer won one game in a six-game match. Everyone thought it remarkable that a computer could play chess with anyone, never mind with a reigning world champion. On 10 February 1996, the reigning chess world champion, Garry Kasparov, won a chess match against Deep Blue. IBM had a contest to come up with a suitable name for their chess computer and the name Deep Blue was the winner. Randy Moulic and Chung Jen Tan were the team managers.įrom Deep Thought, they developed Deep Blue, using the C programming language and the AIX operating system. Chess players Nick DeFirmian, Miguel Illescas Cordoba, and John Fedorowicz worked on the computer’s chess game. IBM then roped in another programmer, Arthur Joseph Hoane, and their long-time employee, Jerry Brody, to join the team. Thomas Anantharaman joined the company sometime later, but, after a short stint, left IBM to go work on Wall Street. The project caught the attention of IBM and, after Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell graduated, the company hired them to develop the Deep Thought project further. From this computer came a more improved version, Deep Thought. In 1985, three computer science students at Carnegie Mellon University, Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell, built the chess-playing computer ChipTest. The event was captured live only on an IBM website, where millions of chess and computing fans witnessed the event in real-time.An identical version of the Deep Blue at Computer History Museum, California. In May 1997, IBM's Deep Blue Supercomputer played a fascinating match with Garry Kasparov, the reigning World Chess Champion. How it all went down between human and machine