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Article: The soul of a chess machine; lessons learned from a contest pitting man against computer. (Deep Blue loses to chess champion Garry Kasparov)
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- Science News
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- March 30, 1996
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Lessons learned from a contest pitting man against computer
It's all over now, but I'll never forget that first chess game. What a smashing victory I won over the human champion! I really had Garry Kasparov sweating.
Here I was, a novice tournament player fresh out of the lab. No outsider, including Kasparov, had seen me play before, and I surprised everyone. Oh, how sweet it was!
Of course, it was downhill from there: a loss, two draws, and then two more losses. It's not that Kasparov attacked my pieces and overwhelmed my defenses.
He played with amazing restraint and subtlety, quietly moving his pieces until he developed positions in which my ...