On the other hand it showed that in just 50 years we could go from a standing start to creating a chess-playing machine that outstripped even our best and brightest.Deep Purple representatives said: ‘Label and management would like to state that nobody from the band or crew, nor members of the media, were hurt during the shooting of the video in Germany in early October.’ Deep Blue used both when it beat Kasparov in 1997.ĭeep Blue could play a mean game of chess – but that is all it could do. One way to look ahead further is through software tricks that stop the computer going down blind alleys as it considers future moves. For each board position in chess there are on average 35 possible moves that can be made, for each of those an average of 35 counter-moves and so on. The problem is that there are a lot of possibilities to examine. The key to success in chess is to look ahead at the consequences of different moves and counter-moves.
Chess has simple, well-defined rules but is also difficult to play well so it was seen as a good test for the fledgling field of artificial intelligence. Computing heavyweights like Alan Turing were obsessed with chess even before computers were powerful enough to play it. The Turk did leave us with more than a good story, though, for it is believed to have helped inspire the development of genuine breakthroughs from the power loom to the telephone.įor a machine that could really play chess the world had to wait for the computer age. A cunningly concealed human operator directed the action on the board, moving the Turk's arm using a system of levers and reading the opponent's moves via magnets. The Turk, as it came to be known, appeared to play its human opponents using nothing but clockwork and toured the world, becoming famous.īut it was all an illusion.
It took the form of a man in Eastern garb sitting behind a box on top of which was a chess board. The first machine to play chess was unveiled by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. But there is more to the legacy of computer chess than that triumph. This goal is generally acknowledged to have been reached in 1997 when IBM's Deep Blue defeated grandmaster and world champion Garry Kasparov. BRILLIANT BLUE: Chess fans watch as computer program Deep Blue defeats then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997.Ĭhess is one of humanity's most cerebral activities and devising a machine that could beat us at our own game was a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence.
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