Deep Blue vs. Kasparov 10th Anniversary 101
qeorqe writes "For the tenth anniversary of Deep Blue's victory over the world chess champion Garry Kasparov,
Wired has an interview with Deep Blue developer Murray Cambell. The discuss the power of the now-aging supercomputer (equivalent to just one Cell processor), and the nonexistent future of PC vs. Human chess contests. 'It's almost the end of the story for chess in the sense that matches between chess machines and grand masters are becoming less interesting because it's so difficult for the human grand masters to compete successfully. They're even taking relatively dramatic steps like giving handicaps to computers, making them play the game with a pawn less or playing the game with less time. We're past the stage where there's a debate about who's better -- machines or grand masters -- and we're just looking for interesting ways to make the competition fairer.'"
fischer random chess (Score:3, Interesting)
How can it be made fairer? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Even the odds! (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually no (Score:2, Interesting)
Respect to Kasparov though (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How about a power and mass handicap? (Score:2, Interesting)
Weird! (Score:2, Interesting)
Then I come back here and find this article. I don't know what my point is but I just love the semi-random nature of brain feeding on the internet. For more information:
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon [damninteresting.com]
An xkcd comic [xkcd.com].
Cheers.
Scientific American in 1992 (Score:3, Interesting)
Almost all chess programs now have an "opening library" of opening move strategies, so it's not that far to extend that library to 10-15-20-50-100 moves...