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Article: Kasparov meets match in silicon grandmaster: Chess computer amazes observers.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 13, 1996
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Blessed with equally vast reservoirs of talent and self-esteem, world chess champion Garry Kasparov has typically been stingy with praise for the succession of pretenders who have tried to take the title he's held for 11 years.
This time it's different.
"In certain kinds of positions," the awestruck Mr. Kasparov said of his current challenger, "it sees so deeply it plays like God."
The chess-playing deity is Deep Blue, a new IBM program linking 256 processors that can calculate 50 billion chess positions in three minutes.
In a resignation that reverberated around the world Saturday night, the human world champ tipped his king in ...