Most days my grandfather sits at his computer, playing chess online with old friends.
Neither the Jeopardy-playing computer nor the chess-playing one has any sense of how a soccer ball bounces.
Then, in 1997, Kasparov played his rematch against Deep Blue, the strongest chess computer on the planet.
That was an unfortunate loss, not only for him, but for science as well because progress on building a smarter chess computer effectively ended after that, he said.
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Like a human, a chess computer would analyse the consequences of a move, but it would do better than even a grandmaster, who would be unlikely to see beyond eight moves ahead.
To compete at chess, the company built an extremely fast computer that could calculate 200 million chess moves per second based on a fixed problem.
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The most famous head to head battle was in 1997 when a computer called Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
Right now a computer might play Jeopardy, but it knows nothing about playing chess.
The greatest chess event of recent times, the matching of a computer against a human player in 1996, had a male star, the Russian Garry Kasparov.
In 1997, many lovers of the game, myself included, were convinced that if the computer were to win, the great romance, mystery and living metaphor of chess would disappear and people would stop caring about the game.
Kramnik lost, 4-2 to the multi-processor version of Chessbase's commercial software in Bonn, Germany. (To Kramnik's credit, in 2002, he'd held Deep Fritz to a draw.) However, this match may end interest in further advancing the field of chess-playing computers, according to Monty Newborn, a professor of computer science at McGill University.
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After losing to a supercomputer at chess, Garry Kasparov created a team event with machines and humans working together against a single computer.
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