Behind Deep Blue : : Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion / / Feng-hsiung Hsu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Hsu, Feng-hsiung,
• MitwirkendeR: Kleinberg, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 40 b/w illus.

The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the world’s greatest human chess player—told by the man who built itOn May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defending world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Behind Deep Blue tells the inside story of the quest to create the mother of all chess machines and what happened at the two historic Deep Blue vs. Kasparov matches. Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, reveals how a modest student project started at Carnegie Mellon in 1985 led to the production of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer. Hsu discusses the setbacks, tensions, and rivalries in the race to develop the ultimate chess machine, and the wild controversies that culminated in the final triumph over the world's greatest human player. With a new foreword by Jon Kleinberg and a new preface from the author, Behind Deep Blue offers a remarkable look at one of the most famous advances in artificial intelligence, and the brilliant toolmaker who invented it.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2022 Paperback -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chess Notation -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 Show Time! -- Carnegie Mellon -- CHAPTER 2 An Office of Troublemakers -- CHAPTER 3 Taking the Plunge -- CHAPTER 4 The Chess Machine That Wasn't -- CHAPTER 5 The Race for First Machine Grandmaster -- CHAPTER 6 "Knock, Knock. Who's There?" -- Intermezzo -- CHAPTER 7 First Date with History -- IBM -- CHAPTER 8 We Need a New Name -- CHAPTER 9 Bringing Up the Baby -- CHAPTER 10 A Living Mount Everest -- CHAPTER 11 Retooling -- CHAPTER 12 The Holy Grail -- Epilogue -- CHAPTER 13 Life after Chess -- Afterword to the 2004 Paperback Edition -- Appendixes -- APPENDIX A A Lad from Taiwan -- APPENDIX B Selected Game Scores -- APPENDIX C Further Reading