However, it could be said with certainty that the a modern day chess engine (like Google’s AlphaZero), would easily beat Deep Blue.
The six match series ended 3.5 - 2.5 in favor of Deep Blue. Another battle was to begin between Man and Machine, and this time Machine took the gold medal. Researchers at IBM had a year to work and improve the machine, and they came up with what was unofficially called “Deeper Blue”. 1997: Deep Blue vs KasparovĪ year had passed by since Deep Blue’s defeat at the hands of Garry Kasparov.
While humans came out victorious this time, the defeat enabled the researchers behind Deep Blue to identify weakness and patch them up so that the machine improved. The six match series concluded 4-2, with Kasparov winning three and Deep Blue 1. Human Intelligence was pitted against computational powerhouse, however, it was human brain that came out victorious. The 6 match series between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov was iconic to say the least, as the then greatest AI developed to play chess was challenging the world chess champion. However, this showed that AI still had a long way to go before reaching the level of super GMs in chess. However Kasparov mentions that in one game he struggled a bit, before tricking the system into taking a piece it shouldn't have. It was tournament between human brain and AI, and human brain came out victorious, 32-0. Such matches are common in the chess world, where one chess GM plays against various relatively weaker players simultaneously (hence the name simuls). The year was 1985, when Garry Kasparov strolled across a room with 32 different chess computers, each one of them trying to beat him. This is because the next move can be determined by the current state of the chessboard and one doesn’t need to know how we got there (Except in case of avoiding three fold repetition). Chess also follows the markov property in most cases, which means that one doesn’t need to know the exact sequence of previous moves to determine what the next move should be. Perfect Information means that at all move the board is completely visible to both the players. Zero sum game is where advantage for one player is disadvantage for the other. To get a bit more technical, chess is a two-player, zero sum, perfect information game. Furthermore, the efficiency of moves is determined by the move opponent makes. This probably is because of the interesting problem that chess presents, with each piece having its own unique moving pattern and having to use the pieces synchronously to win. For a long time chess has been a measure of progress in AI. Almost anyone who has worked in AI has dwelled into chess and developed a model which can play reasonable chess.
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