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Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion

Feng-Hsiung Hsu

Subtitled: "Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion".

In nontechnical, conversational prose, Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, tells us how he and a small team of fellow researchers forged ahead at IBM with a project they'd begun as students at Carnegie Mellon in the mid-1980s: A machine that could beat any human chess player in a bona fide match. Back in 1949 science had conceived the foundations of modern chess computers but not until almost fifty years later would the quest be realized with the creation of Deep Blue.

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