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Deep Blue - An Artificial Intelligence Milestone
This book offers a detailed account of IBM's Deep Blue chess program, the people who created it, and its historic battles with World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, who challenged the AI principles of the technology with human intelligence. It examines the progress made by its creators beginning with its 1989 two-game match with Kasparov through its
stunning 1997 victory over him. The heroes are IBM researchers Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, and Joe Hoane, along with team leader Chung-Jen Tan and International Grandmaster Joel Benjamin. IBM's Deep Blue: A Technological Triumph chronicles one of the great technology achievements of the 20th Century. It established a point in history when mankind's exciting new tool, the computer, came of age and competed with its human creators in the unltimate intellectual competition, the game of chess. This book will serve as the premier story documenting that achievement and a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence.
Contents:
* Intellectual equals * Testing the water * Gaining experience * Surviving Deep cuts * From Cape May to Beijing * Philadelphia * Rematch negotiations * A faster and smarter Deep Blue * Countdown to the rematch * The rematch--Game 1: Three straight for Kasparov * The rematch--Game 2: Internet finds break for Deep Blue * The rematch--Games 3-5: Endgame standoffs * The rematch--Game 6: A sacrifice and surprising patience * Deep Blue is triumphant * The bottom line * The light side of Deep Blue
* Appendixes of rules, algebraic chess notation, and specific games
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