Deep blue chess engine logic series#

What was Deep Blue thinking? Perhaps the computer realized the game was lost and threw it to confuse the reigning champion. The move appeared so crazy Kasparov spent the evening fussing over it. Deep Blue went on to lose the game shortly thereafter.Р”Р„ diagram of a chess board. By all human standards the move was nothing short of crazy. And near the end of the first game, Kasparov was witness to an extraordinary move a move so outlandish the world champion was dumbstruck. So when Kasparov sat down to play chess, he knew his opponent was good - perhaps superhumanly so. Deep Blue played with the knowledge of grandmasters and the speed of a powerful computer. In addition, grandmaster chess players aided programmers by sharing their experience and insights about the game. They developed algorithms that allowed Deep Blue to calibrate itself by studying hundreds of thousands of games played by the finest chess players in history. ThatРІР‚в„ўs where people behind the scenes came in. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Jim Gardner Still, even with all that computing power, computers need guidance about what makes a move РІР‚Сљgood.РІР‚Сњ Computers do much the same thing, but can evaluate millions of moves and trace their repercussions farther into the future. Humans play chess by evaluating how a handful of moves might play out into the future. But even more, Kasparov understood how computers played. Only a year earlier heРІР‚в„ўd defeated Deep Blue. Kasparov was no stranger to chess-playing computers. But why the loss? Was Kasparov outmatched, or was Deep Blue lucky?Р”В¬hess master Garry Kasparov. It was the year that world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a match to IBMРІР‚в„ўs supercomputer Deep Blue. The year 1997 saw a breakthrough unlike any other in the history of computing.

Deep blue chess engine logic series#

The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.