Hoffman, Paul,

Retooling Machine and Man for Next Big Chess Faceoff. Paul Hoffman. - New York Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 63, Science, 1522-3264; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Retooling Machine and Man for Next Big Chess Faceoff, Jan. 21, 2003; pp. D1+.

"In 1997, Garry Kasparov, the Russian grandmaster who was then the world champion, played a highly publicized match, billed 'as the last stand of the brain,' against the I.B.M. supercomputer Deep Blue. The 1.4-ton refrigerator-size machine was a calculating monster. Its 418 processors routinely chewed through 200 million chess positions a second." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article compares the way humans and computers approach the game of chess.

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Kasparov


Artificial intelligence
Chess players
Computer chess
Human-computer interaction
IBM computers
Intellect
Strategic planning
Turing test

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