PART 1 • Some thoughts on kasparov vs. Deep blue
ADDENDUM
I had to smile when I first re-read my essay after these many years. In it,
I mentioned a 600,000 game database search that takes about the same
amount of time as getting a cup of coffee. Today's databases usually top
five million games, and if you start to get up once you start a search, the
results are usually on the screen before your butt clears the chair. And
there's something else which really makes me smile: the doctors did
(eventually) cure my “kid” nephew, who is now grown up and a chef for
an upscale restaurant in the Pacific Northwest.
We're going to come back (more than once) to some of the points I
referenced in the preceding essay; in fact, learning to use that whole
“integrated environment” thing is the entire point of this book. But for now,
let's return to our overview of computer chess history...
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