They played two matches, each of if this book had been written forty years earlier, it would have been a typical piece of hard sciencefiction. The sixgame match lasted several days and ended with two wins for ibm, one for the champion and three draws. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from kasparovs perspective. According to the ibm website, the term did not originate from within the company. The turning point came in 1997, when chessmaster garry kasparov faced off against ibm s chessplaying computer deep blue in new york, ny in an official match under tournament regulations. The subject was a few of the moves that stood out for a variety of reasons, such as a bug in game one of the 1997 match, and a move in game two that kasparov found so unbelievable that he accused the deep blue team of cheating. Deep thinking by garry kasparov is an autobiographical retelling of his historic series of matches against the ibm chess machine, deep blue. This is a great book for the beginner or intermediate player. Back then it was a novelty, and, with its chess computer, ibm wanted to give the public a glimpse of the immense possibilities of artificial intelligence. Ibm international business machines corporation, leading american computer manufacturer, headquartered in armonk, new york, with a major share of the market both in the united states and abroad. Garry kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived.
Ibms real purpose in developing deep blue wasnt to humiliate chess grand masters but to tout the cause of artificial intelligence. Learn more about the founding, history, and products of the company in this article. Deep blue was an ibm created supercomputer designed to defeat world champion garry kasparov. The 1997 match was the subject of a documentary film, the man vs. Beyond deep blue chess in the stratosphere monty newborn. In 1997, ibm deep blue became the first computer to defeat a world chess champion in tournament conditions. The day a computer beat a chess world champion, 1997. Kasparov wins the first match, but loses the secondthe first time a computer has ever beaten. Kasparov accused ibm of cheating and demanded a rematch, but ibm declined and retired deep blue. The text examines the progress made by the creators of deep blue, beginning with the1989 twogame match against kasparov. In defeating kasparov on may 11 1997, deep blue made history as the first computer to beat a.
Industrial espionage, ibm and the cia, author don franck gives his readers a hairraising look into the spy world on a worldwide scale. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence. The grandmasters account of his 1997 battle with deep blue is both. Deep blue was able to imagine an average of 200,000,000 positions per second. In 1997, in a famous sixgame match with the ibm supercomputer deep blue, he lost 3. Despite having lost a previous match against kasparov in 1996, deep blue won the 1997 match 3. A fascinating account of the ibm computer and the match, written by its programmer. Along with watson, the grand challenges have spawned deep blue, the machine that famously beat grand master garry kasparov at chess, and the blue gene supercomputer. Jun 04, 2017 deep blue was massively improved with more and faster processing hardware. Ibms watson and the era of cognitive computing by john e. Garry kasparovs 1997 chess match against the ibm supercomputer deep blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. There have been a lot of advances since i last looked at this problem. Between them, ibm retooled its machine, and kasparov accused ibm of. Garry kasparov faced off against deep blue, ibms chessplaying computer, in 1997.
Ibm deep blue beats garry kasparaov, marking the first time a computer had defeated a reigning world champion in a traditional match. On february 10, 1996, ibms deep blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion, garry kasparov. I was very much surprised to read a statement, imputed to botvinnik, that the day will come when computers will thoroughly master chess, and fide will have to establish grandmaster and master titles for these machines. While writing the book i did a lot of research analysing the games with modern computers, also soulsearching and i changed my conclusions. Reports that deep blue was sold to united airlines appear to originate from confusion between deep blue itself and other rs6000sp2 systems. The computer was deep blue, a machine designed by ibm capable of computing 100 million positions per. As the successor to chiptest and deep thought, earlier purposebuilt chess computers, deep blue was designed to succeed where all others had failed. Deep blue was able to take advantage of modern parallel multi cpu problem.
According to david wondrichs cocktail history book imbibe. Sep 27, 2012 did a bug in deep blue lead to kasparovs defeat. With marc ghannoum, joel benjamin, michael greengard, anatoli karpov. The museums collections contain mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, and handheld devices.
The second was played in new york city in 1997 and won by deep blue. With the chess computer deep blue from ibm, which succeeded in 1996 as the first machine to beat the thenreigning chess world champion garry kasparov in a match, the artificial intelligence. The turning point came in 1997, when chessmaster garry kasparov faced off against ibms chessplaying computer deep blue in new york, ny in an official match under tournament regulations. A brief history of cognitive computing dataversity. In 1997, deep blue defeats the world chess champion garry kasparov, a historic. In nontechnical, conversational prose, fenghsiung hsu, the system architect of deep blue, tells us how he and a small team of fellow researchers forged ahead at ibm with a project theyd begun as students at carnegie mellon in the mid1980s. Kasparov also uses this book to expound on the history of artificial intelligence ai, with a focus on its application to chess, and provides his thoughts on how humanity can embrace ai to build a better tomorrow. It was february 1997, and i was covering the kasparovdeep blue matchthe historic contest where ibms computer would beat the world championfor newsweek.
New full episodes once or twice a week and 12 new clips or a new nonpodcast. Sep 08, 2017 one of the best books about ibm is really about the person who started it. Before forming blue hexagon, islam was the head of research and development at qualcomm, where he led efforts to use deep learning for image and speech recognition. It shows what goes on in a grandmasters mind when playing. Deep blue was massively improved with more and faster processing hardware. Deep blue, a chessplaying computer developed by ibm that defeated world champion garry kasparov in 1997. We hear of artificial intelligence all the time nowadays.
Before that, he was part of the supercomputing team at ibm that built the machine that eventually became deep blue. From helping the apollo space missions land on the moon to the discovery of fractals. A slang term sometimes used to refer to international business machines corporation ibm. The machine refused to move to a position that had a decisive shortterm advantage, kasparov wrote after the match. Fenghsiung hsu later claimed in his book behind deep blue that he had the rights to use the deep. I am not writing any love letters to ibm, but my respect for the deep blue team went up. This book offers a detailed account of ibms deep blue chess program, the people who created it, and its historic battles with world chess champion garry kasparov. Sep 09, 20 along with watson, the grand challenges have spawned deep blue, the machine that famously beat grand master garry kasparov at chess, and the blue gene supercomputer. The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion by a computer under tournament conditions. The most wellknown chessplaying computer is ibms deep blue, which faced off against russian chess grandmaster garry kasparov in a much publicized series. More than a decade has passed since ibms deep blue computer stunned the world by defeating. Deep blue versus garry kasparov was a pair of sixgame chess matches between world chess champion garry kasparov and an ibm supercomputer called deep blue. Deep blue, computer chessplaying system designed by ibm in the early 1990s. In defeating kasparov on may 11 1997, deep blue made history as the first computer to beat a world champion in a sixgame match.
It was the first time that the world witnessed the historic event of a computer being worthy contender to one of the worlds sharpest mind. A group of smart computer scientists at ibm built an extremely strong chess computer called deep blue, with the express aim of beating world champion garry kasparov in a match. I am not writing any love letters to ibm, but my respect for the deep blue team went up, and my opinion of my own play, and deep blues play, went down. The book provides analysis of the games alongside a detailed. Chess champion garry kasparov loses to deep blue history. Kasparov appeared on yahoo news with golodryga in part to discuss his new book about the future of artificial intelligence, deep thinking. In this breakthrough book, kasparov tells his side of the story of deep blue for the. According to many observers, the chess match between garry kasparov and the ibm computer deep blue in may 1997 was an historic event.
When on may 11 deep blue, an ibm computer, defeated garry kasparov in the sixth and deciding game of their manvs. At that time, the victory was widely described as milestone in ai. I skimmed a book on this about 20 years ago, but most likely that book is no longer on the forefront. Deep blue is an ibm rs6000 sp supercomputer capable of calculating 200 million chess positions per second.
Aug 14, 2016 there have been a lot of advances since i last looked at this problem. We argue that this claim is inaccurate, is representative of a widespread phenomenon in the field, and is ultimately harmful to ai. Veteran of ibms deep blue launches aibased cybersecurity. Other artifacts range from personal computers to eniac, the altair, and the osborne 1. Where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins. Why the chess computer deep blue played like a human issue. On may 11, 1997, an ibm computer called deep blue defeated the reigning world chess champion, garry kasparov, capturing the attention and imagination of the world. In 1996 it made history by defeating russian grandmaster garry kasparov in one of their six gamesthe first time a computer had won a game against a world champion under. Nov 12, 2015 deep blue ibm shows computings potential with deep blue, a computer programmed to play chess like a grandmaster. The match was cast as the ultimate example of man versus machine. A cray2 supercomputer is part of the collections, along with one of the towers of ibm s deep blue, the computer that defeated reigning champion garry kasparov in a chess match in 1997. He was an integral team member when the us air force took pictures of the soviet union from hydrogenfilled balloons at the height of the cold war and prior to the advent of.
A cray2 supercomputer is part of the collections, along with one of the towers of ibms deep blue, the computer that defeated reigning champion garry kasparov in a chess match in 1997. The match lasted several days and received massive media coverage around the world. Kelly iii, steve hamm columbia university press, 161pp buy on amazon in 1996, ibms deep blue supercomputer. After a scaleddown version of deep blue, deep blue jr. In may 1997, the chess world champion garry kasparov faced off against ibms deep blue originally named deep thought in a match designed to prove that machines could not just think but they could. This is a clip from a conversation with garry kasparov from oct 2019. But people forget that the deep blue challenge was a set of two matches, and kasparov won the first, in 1996, in philadelphia. A brief history of deep blue, ibms chess computer mental floss. In 1997, kasparov, the worlds reigning chess champion at the time, famously lost a game to ibm supercomputer deep blue. Deep blue succeeded in its goal of winning against a reigning world. This week time magazine ran a story on the famous series of matches between ibm s supercomputer and garry kasparov.
He has a good comment explaining just about every move. The first match was played in philadelphia in 1996 and won by kasparov. New full episodes once or twice a week and 12 new clips or a new nonpodcast video on all other days. Nearly two decades later, the match still fascinates. Behind deep blue goodreads meet your next favorite book. They played two matches, each of if this book had been written forty years earlier, it. In 1997 the deep blue computer program, built by ibm, inflicted a narrow but psychologically crushing defeat on kasparov in the glare of global attention. In 1997 he played a chess match against ibms computer deep blue. W hen ibms deep blue beat chess grandmaster garry kasparov in 1997 in a sixgame chess match, kasparov came to believe he was facing a machine that could experience human intuition.
When deep blue played garry kasparov in february 1996 and may 1997, the extensive ibm web pages devoted to the site claimed that deep blue did not use artificial intelligence. Feb 24, 2020 19961997 deep blue, ibms artificial intelligence, plays world chess champion garry kasparov. Why the chess computer deep blue played like a human. On may 11, 1997, ibms deep blue computer defeated the reigning world chess champion in a major milestone for artificial intelligence.
Big blue has lost its direction, according to cringely, and the early pages of his book outline how he thinks that has happened. Nov 24, 2009 on february 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion garry kasparov loses the first game of a sixgame match against deep blue, an ibm computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per. In 1997, the deep blue system of ibm defeated the world chess champion, gary kasparov. Pdf history of artificial intelligence researchgate.
Deep thinking audiobook, written by garry kasparov audio. In his new book, nate silver writes that a glitch in ibm s chess terminator may have spooked garry kasparov in his famous 1997 loss. The deep blue project inspired a more recent grand challenge at ibm. The book unveils how a modest student project eventually produced a multimillion dollar. Deep blue was a chessplaying computer developed by ibm. Sep 12, 2018 the most wellknown chessplaying computer is ibms deep blue, which faced off against russian chess grandmaster garry kasparov in a much publicized series of matches in february 1996. In a sixgame match, a chessplaying ibm computer known as deep blue defeats chess grandmaster garry kasparov the first time a reigning world champion loses a match to a computer opponent in tournament play. That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, kasparov reveals his astonishing side of. On 11 may 1997, the machine won a sixgame match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion garry kasparov. Garry kasparov and the game of artificial intelligence.
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