15 years ago the computer Deep Blue beat a man in chess

IBM celebrates another anniversary in its history - on May 11, 1997, the Deep Blue computer in a match of 6 games beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov: the computer won twice, once a man and three games were played in a draw.

The victory of Deep Blue did not come easy IBM - in the depths of the corporation since the early 1950s of the last century, work was underway to create specialized computers and related software. In 1985, a graduate student at Carnegie Malone University Feng Hsu (Feng-hsiung Hsu) during the work on his thesis built a computer to solve chess problems, called ChipTest. His colleague Murray Campbell, who joined the project later, together with Feng Hsu himself, were accepted into the IBM Research division, which was engaged in the development of research innovation tasks. They are responsible for the emergence of the project Deep Blue, which in 1989 was not yet able to play with a man - then Kasparov won. A similar story was repeated in 1996, but a year later, the third version of the program was able to take revenge, and the final game ended in 19 moves, despite the fact that the games of Kasparov’s players at the level last about four hours.
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Technically, Deep Blue was a computer with a 32-core (32-node) IBM POWER2 processor, each of which was connected to eight specialized VLSI chess processors running on an RS / 6000 server platform. The Deep Blue code was written in C, and IBM AIX was used as the operating system.

After the victory, Deep Blue was placed in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, marking the beginning of a new era of IBM Blue Gene supercomputers.

Under the cut, a video prepared by IBM for the anniversary, in which Murray Campbell - one of the first developers of Deep Blue - tells about his project.




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