On This Day 10 Years Ago, Chess Champion Defeated By Supercomputer

merrie

5-11-2008 8:19 PM

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garry kasparov, russian chess champion, ibm, deep thought, supercomputer, human matchups

merrie says:

WN: Kasparov's request for a rematch was turned down. Why do you think that was? It looked like IBM had got good publicity but took the ball away and didn't want to play anymore.

Campbell: I believe we had accomplished what we were trying to do for so many years and it was time to move on to other problems. Garry Kasparov has now retired from chess and Deep Blue is in a museum so that's not going to happen, but matches between other computers and the current world champion have taken place as recently as last year.