CHESS THE GAME http://chessthegame.com/blog Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:10:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Building a PC to Defeat IBM’s Chess Supercomputer http://chessthegame.com/blog/building-a-pc-to-defeat-ibms-chess-supercomputer http://chessthegame.com/blog/building-a-pc-to-defeat-ibms-chess-supercomputer#comments Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:10:29 +0000 Administrator Chess Computer http://chessthegame.com/blog/building-a-pc-to-defeat-ibms-chess-supercomputer In the 1990s, world chess champion Gary Kasparov played two historic matches against IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer. He won the first match but lost the second by just a single point.

As a graduate student at Stanford writing a thesis on artificial intelligence at that time, I was fascinated by the match. I’d been a computer hobbyist since the 1980s as well as a chess buff.

Over the years I’ve tried practically every commercially available chess program on every platform, including Sargon, Socrates, Chessmaster, and others. I used TRS 80 and Apple II computers, and then IBM PCs running DOS, followed by Macintosh and Windows systems.

Since that time I’ve wanted a chess computer as powerful as Deep Blue - my own world-champion-level sparring partner  read whole article

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