Machines built to win at ‘thinking’ games

By Errol Tiwari On In Chess with Errol |
Russia’s world chess champion Garry Kasparov takes on the world’s super-computer Deep Blue in a return six game chess match in New York in 1997. Kasparov had beaten Blue the previous year. Blue won the deciding sixth and final game. Its owners IBM, did not respond positively to Kasparov for a rematch and retired the machine.
Russia’s world chess champion Garry Kasparov takes on the world’s super-computer Deep Blue in a return six game chess match in New York in 1997. Kasparov had beaten Blue the previous year. Blue won the deciding sixth and final game. Its owners IBM, did not respond positively to Kasparov for a rematch and retired the machine.

Garber to fellow policeman: “You won’t believe this.”

20131215chessPoliceman: “You know me. I believe anything.”

Garber: “They took Pelham 123 today.”

Policeman: “I don’t believe it.” – From the film The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)

I didn’t believe it either when I learnt that mankind had developed a machine which played chess. The news appeared to be within the realm of science fiction that reminded one of Isaac Asimov’s surreal short story I, Robot. The notion of a