Garry Kasparov with IBM
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schahinap on Mon, 08/13/2007 at 1:05pm.
Just over a decade ago, on May 11, 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated the best chess player in the world, Garry Kasparov. Computer scientist Murray Campbell was one of the programmers of Deep Blue and moved the chess pieces for the computer during the iconic match. In an interview with Wired, Campbell relived the match and commented on modern supercomputing. Campbell said that chess matches between humans and computers have basically reached the end of the line, as computers are being given handicaps, such as playing with fewer pieces or less time, and a basic Cell processor today has as much processing power as Deep Blue did in 1997. Campbell recalled that no one expected the now famous match to attract so much attention, even after Kasparov beat Deep Blue's predecessor Deep Thought in 1989. Deep Blue was able to analyze 200,000,000 moves per second, and was redesigned with chess-specific hardware so it would run more chess patterns--upgrades that were helped by a team of grand masters. When asked about Kasparov's refusal for a rematch, Campbell said the IBM team accomplished what they were trying to and it was time for them to move onto another project. Kasparov has since retired from chess and Deep Blue sits in a museum, but other chess matches between humans and computers still continue. The current world chess champion, Vladimir Kramnik from Russia, lost a match to a PC program in November by four games to two. Von : Schahinap
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