CHAPTER 1
Introduction
• Introduction
• From Antikythera to Zarkov:
a tour of how we came to be here
• The first chess machine
• Chess and computers –
they go together like chocolate and peanut butter
• Computers get smaller
• A chess computer on the table
• A computer in your hand
• Stone knives and bearskins –
what did chess players do before computers?
• Chess comes home for good – in the beginning
• The bombshell
• The gorilla in the corner
• Some highlights of home computer chess through 1998
• Humans meet their match
• Confronting the beast:
Some thoughts on Kasparov vs. Deep blue
• The aftermath
• The twenty-first century
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