Deep Blue
Deep Blue
(computer)Deep Blue started it's life as a PhD project at Carnegie Mellon University by PhD students Feng-hsiung Hsu and MurrayCampbell. Chiptest, as it was known then, consisted of acustom designed chip hosted in a Sun 3/160 computer.
The project moved over to IBM in 1989 when Hsu and Campbelljoined IBM. Deep Thought, as it was known by then, playedfor the first time against Garry Kasparov in the same year.The game of two matches was easily won by Kasparov.
The next match against Kasparov took place in February 1996.By then the machine was again renamed, at that time it wasknown as Deep Blue. It was also heavily re-engineered: it wasby then running on a 32-node RS/6000 cluster, eachcontaining 8 custom designed chips. Alas, Kasparov won again.
The breakthrough finally happened in February 1997: with boththe algorithm and the raw speed significantly improved, DeepBlue beat Kasparov 3.5:2.5.
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Deep Blue
The first computer to beat a human chess master. In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in game one of a six-game match and won the entire rematch a year later.From ChipTest to Deep Thought to Deep Blue
Deep Blue originated as the ChipTest chess-playing computer at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1980s. Evolving into Deep Thought under IBM's direction, it won the North American and World Class Chess Championships in the late 1980s.
Specialized for Chess
Deep Blue was based on a 30-node RS/6000 parallel computer running AIX (IBM's Unix). With each node augmented by 480 chips specialized for the game, Deep Blue could evaluate up to 20 chess moves ahead. See RS/6000 and Watson.