Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion
Feng-hsiung Hsu, who masterminded Kasparov's match play defeat by a computer, tells his story. A nerdy book might be expected, delving into arcane topics (computer chip design, programming, chess), but instead we have something more like 'Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.' No specialist knowledge...
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Feng-hsiung Hsu, who masterminded Kasparov's match play defeat by a computer, tells his story. A nerdy book might be expected, delving into arcane topics (computer chip design, programming, chess), but instead we have something more like 'Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.' No specialist knowledge is demanded. The author's adventures with phantom queens, etc. are fascinating. His will-to-win matched that of the legendary Kasparov.—Ken Whyld, Editor of the Oxford Companion to Chess"I don't play chess; never have. Most research, as Edison said, is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration—not exciting to watch. Thus, I did not have high hopes for Behind Deep Blue. Wrong! It's a page-turner! Even if you don't follow the technical details of chip design or chess, Hsu has captured the very human dimension exquisitely! It's a great story!"—William A. Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering, AA&M Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780691118185 (0691118183)
Publish date: March 1st 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Wow. I think Hofstadter's thoughts (from NYT, 1996) are so way, way off on this:Several cognitive scientists said Deep Blue's victory in the opening game of the recent match told more about chess than about intelligence."It was a watershed event, but it doesn't have to do with computers becoming int...
If this book had been written forty years earlier, it would have been a typical piece of hard science-fiction. In fact, there is an SF short story by Fritz Leiber, The Sixty-Four Square Madhouse, which is quite similar. Like everyone else, I knew the bare bones of the real life version. A group of s...
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