#CHESS VS COMPUTER PC#

Having a computer opponent can help chess players train, writes Finley, but Kasparov also said the original draw of teaching computers to play chess wasn’t just about teaching them to win. The search for a computer that can beat even the best at chess was only really interesting between 1994, when computers were too weak, and 2004, when they got too strong.Īlthough that contest is over, he wrote, there is still a wealth of complexity to plunder.

#CHESS VS COMPUTER PC#

“Today, for $50, you can buy a home PC program that will crush most grandmasters,” Kasparov wrote. The great contest of man-versus-computer chess is over.

Two decades later, computers now regularly beat humans at chess, writes Klint Finley for Wired. It was a pivotal moment in computing, one that changed both computers and chess forever.

“The result was met with astonishment and grief by those who took it as a symbol of mankind’s submission before the almighty computer,” Kasparov wrote in 2010. The next year, Kasparov and Blue faced off again and Kasparov lost the match. Two other games in that match were draws. On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match-the first time a computer had ever beat a human in a formal chess game. On this day 21 years ago, the world changed forever when a computer beat the then-chess champion of the world at his own game.

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