Monday, 1 October 2012

Did Deep Blue beat Kasparov because of a computer bug?

Garry Kasparov

In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine.


Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine. Either at the end of the first game or the beginning of the second, depending on who's telling the story, the computer made a sacrifice that seemed to hint at its long-term strategy.


By: Klint Finley, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/01/deep-blue-bug

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