Kasparov Lost To Ibms Deep Blue Supercomputer

Buy IBM Monday morning ! said a hastily scribbled note in the crowded press room as world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat looking shell-shocked.

Kasparov lost to IBMs Deep Blue supercomputer in just about an hour on Sunday, losing the six game series by 2.5 to 3.5.

But the world champion lost little time in dismissing the theory that machines had finally beaten man.

One man cracked under the pressure; this had nothing to do with the computer being unbeatable, he said, vowing to pulverize Deep Blue in any future encounter.

The match was lost by the world champion.

As the Deep Blue team of computer experts and chess grandmasters listened solemnly, Kasparov blamed himself, the playing conditions and IBM for his defeat.

 

He said he was under prepared and did not have records of Deep Blues past games. Above all, he said he was suspicious of IBMs role as both sponsor and competitor.

Things in the match were well beyond by understanding, he said. I had no idea what was happening behind the curtain (Deep Blue was not physically present in the match room but was relaying its decisions to an operator)... even with human flexibility you cannot change playing style so dramatically.

IBM couldnt have had better news. The computer giant was utilising the chess match to give a very public platform to its supercomputing versatility.

Deep Blue, with it is not playing with the world chess champion, earns its living by doing everything from scrunching player statistics for National Basketball Association (NBA) coaches, to processing data for Lloyds of London, to sifting through compound interactions for drug companies.

The Deep Blue computer experts touted the machines use in business applications.

This is a match that will benefit everyone, from the audience that learned from Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue to the the consumers who will benefit from this technology, said team leader Chung-Jen Tan drawing attention to the computers ability to process a mindboggling two hundred million chess moves per second.

IBMs $700,000 winners prize will now be channeled into new research. Kasparov received $ 400,000 for his unaccustomed second place.

The computer giant, which spent about $5 million to stage the chess match, has reaped millions of dollars worth free publicity from the media hype surrounding the event.

Newsweek magazine put the contest on its cover, the New York Times has been giving it front page billing, hundreds of global radio stations and newspapers have picked up the story, and the contest site was swamped with a million hits daily.

Said the Wall Street Journal, Checkmate! Deep Blue is IBM publicity coup.

Will there by Deep Blue Three ? Kasparov, who bear the first Deep Blue version last year, is itching for a rematch and urging the IBM to enter its chess protege in grandmaster-level chess tournaments.

IBM is not promising any rematches yet. Said Tan with a straight fact.

It is a very interesting thought.