Giventhe hype and speculation following that event, I findit difficult to believe that anything I say in this re-view will persuade anyone to either buy this bookor pass on it. This book was published after the 1996 match be-tween Kasparov and Deep Blue, but before the1997 match in which Kasparov was defeated. Kasparov Versus Deep Blue: Computer ChessComes of AgeMonty NewbornSpringer-Verlag322 pagesHardcover $29.95 Kasparov Versus Deep Blue:Computer Chess Comes of Age In the meantime, I will give Newbornsbook a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 and hope that some-one who knows more about chess will revise it. I hope this book will be writtensome day. The real story of ComputerChess Comes of Age should be written about whatthe Deep Blue team did between the matches of19. However, in 1997 chessunderstanding was invoked in a number of smallinnovations, and this created an entity that playedso well that Kasparov became flustered as histricks were turned aside, and he eventually wentoff the deep end. Relatedto this schism between the technologists and thechess players is the fact that the 1996 Deep Bluewas dominated by the technologists, and once Kas-parov understood its weaknesses, he had no trou-ble bringing it to its knees. It is as if someone swam the EnglishChannel and his report is that he just kept puttingone arm in front of the other until he touchedshore. However, when such individuals write abouttheir work, it becomes quite clear that they reallydo not understand what they have or have notachieved. It is highlycommendable that these individuals have achievedall that they have, based principally on generationinnovations tested against older versions. It is significantthat a coterie of computer chess achievers have notunderstood much about chess itself.
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We have efficient 64 bits operations.Is misidentified as Andreas Nowatzyk, someonewhom Newborn obviously did not know or take thetime to find out about.Īlso, while the material presented by Newbornis sound as far as it goes, it is very slanted towardtechnical mishaps and other irrelevant trivia whenhe could have presented games that show thegradual growth of playing strength. The algorithms was hardware specific (e.g.Deep Blue pruned less than modern engines.Deep Blue had very basic move ordering ( by Alvaro Cardoso supports my argument).If Stockfish did that, you wouldn't be able to use the engine on an iPhone. Deep Blue was running evaluation on hardware, make no sense in 2018.Deep Blue used MPI for parallel search.Deep Blue didn't use late move pruning (I failed to see in the paper).I'm very confident all modern engines use it. Deep Blue didn't have something known as null move pruning.IBM had 32GB hash table, we can do better than that in 2018.Deep Blue was running on a dedicated machine.Deep Blue didn't focus on deep search as much as modern engines like Stockfish ( (chess_computer)#Aftermath supports my argument).2018, nobody uses human grandmaster games for tuning.Please note I was too young for the project, so my understanding might not be 100% correct.ĭeep Blue had a paper. There was a somewhat related discussion on Rybka:ĭeep Blue is out-dated, it was made before this century. It's not always possible to compare engines by number of moves searched per seconds. How it's done is implementation dependent. There's no universe definition on how an engine calculates number of moves per second. it was unclear how exactly IBM derived the number. IBM claimed the machine could search for 200 million moves per second, while Stockfish in the recent AlphaZero match could "only" search for 80 million per seconds on a modern multi-core machines.