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Deep Blue

An Artificial Intelligence Milestone

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Authors:
  1. Monty Newborn

    1. School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  • Provides comprehensive and authoritative history of this milestone scientific project

  • A unique presentation, based on conversations with team members, of Game 6 of the Rematch with Kasparov

  • Explains what Deep Blue "saw" when it played several moves that Kasparov could not understand in Game 2 of the Rematch

  • Written by a chess-playing computer scientist who concentrates on the technical side of the story

  • Appendices include all of Deep Blue's games, as well as those played by the program's earlier versions

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Intellectual Equals

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 1-14

  3. Testing the Water

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 15-41

  4. Gaining Experience

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 43-53

  5. Surviving Deep Cuts

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 55-67

  6. From Cape May to Beijing

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 69-89

  7. Philadelphia

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 91-112

  8. Rematch Negotiations

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 113-118

  9. A Faster and Smarter Deep Blue

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 119-126

  10. Countdown to the Rematch

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 127-137

  11. The Rematch — Game 1: Three Straight for Kasparov

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 139-152

  12. The Rematch — Game 2: Internet Finds Break for Deep Blue

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 153-165

  13. The Rematch — Games 3–5: Endgame Standoffs

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 167-186

  14. The Rematch — Game 6: A Sacrifice and Surprising Patience

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 187-210

  15. Deep Blue Is Triumphant

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 211-222

  16. The Bottom Line

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 223-238

  17. The Light Side of Deep Blue

    • Monty Newborn
    Pages 239-249

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 251-346
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About this book

s a competitor of the Deep Blue team, I had mixed emotions as I A watched their chess-playing machine defeat World Chess Cham­ pion Garry Kasparov during their 1997 Rematch. On the one hand, it meant that our MIT program, *Socrates, would not be the first program to defeat a human World Chess Champion. On the other hand, I felt great admiration for the monumental engineering accomplishment that Deep Blue's victory represented, and proud for the small part that my own team had played in advancing computer-chess research. After over 50 years of concerted effort to produce a chess-playing machine capable of beating the best human, Deep Blue finally attained the goal that so many computer scientists had sought. In this entertaining and informative book, Monty Newborn chronicles the story of Deep Blue, from its origins as Chiptest at Carnegie Mellon University to its winning the Rematch as a top IBM research project. You do not have to be a chess player or a computer scientist to enjoy this marvelous tale of man and machine. Monty paints the characters of this drama in vivid colors, from the technical geniuses CB Hsu, Murray Camp­ bell, and Thomas Anantharaman to the visionary manager CJ Tan. As only an insider can, Monty recreates the excitement of the event, including the IBM marketing hype and the marvelous compendium of editorial cartoons.

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"In 1997 … the chess machine Deep Blue defeated reigning World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov … . Monty Newborn, the author … has long been involved in computer chess and was instrumental in making possible the 1996 and 1997 matches between Deep Blue and Kasparov . His book documents the external events – what happened where and when – and deliberately avoids getting into details of the technology. This is the book’s greatest strength … . It is accessible to anyone … ." (Jonathan Schaeffer, American Scientist, Vol. 91 (3), 2003)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Monty Newborn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Deep Blue

  • Book Subtitle: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone

  • Authors: Monty Newborn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21790-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95461-5Published: 06 December 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-9568-3Published: 24 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21790-1Published: 20 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 348

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, History of Computing

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