Classic video of Deep Blue vs. Kasparov from 10 years ago in 1997. Click here to view it.
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Garry still can’t accept this loss.
Spot the faces …
04.57: Ken Thompson in foreground
Ken Thompson sat in the machine room for the duration of each game. I believe he was the only person acceptable as ‘monitor’ to both sides.
Kasparov lost to a supercomputer in 1997, Kramnik lost to a PC in 2007, will the 2017 man-machine match be Carlson vs. the chess program on his wrist watch?
Garry still can’t accept this loss.
Yes, he can’t. Despite that the next decade clearly proved that computers overcame humans in chess. So, it wasn’t some “fluke” or “cheating”, as it didn’t have to be.
Deep Blue defeating Kasparov was a major milestone in both the history of chess, as well as the history of computers. For many years before the famous 1997 event, chess experts kept claiming that the computers will NEVER defeat the world champion in chess, lacking the whatever assumed “magic human quality”. As it turned out, the claim was plain not true. Computers started to play better and better chess, culminating in the defeat of the world champion in a regular match. Being first such an event Kasparov could claim it was some unfair play, but then in the next decade chess programs became better and better, where and “off the shelf” computer with Fritz defeated Kramnik. Thus looking back, Deep Blue defeating Kasparov was special only in one aspect: it was the first time. Kasparov by now surely realized that.