![]() IBM Watson, shown here with a hairy British person captured within, is a spiritual successor of Deep Blue. Today’s best chess programs can easily beat out the world’s best human chess players, even when they’re run on fairly conventional hardware (a modern multi-core CPU). Over the next few years, humans and computers traded blows - but eventually, by 2005-2006, computer chess programs were solidly in the lead. ![]() In the 1997 rematch, following some software tweaks (and ironically, perhaps thanks to a very fateful software bug), Deep Blue won. In 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer lost to Garry Kasparov - then the top-rated chess player in the world. Called Komodo, the software can reach an Elo rating as high as 3304 - about 450 points higher than Kasparov, or indeed any human brain currently playing chess. Today, following the completion of TCEC Season 7, we have a new computer chess world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have firmly cemented their lead over puny, fallible meatbags - Garry Kasparov is still considered by many to be the greatest chess player ever, while computers are only getting more and more powerful. ![]() It’s almost 18 years since IBM’s Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion.
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