And everybody made sure that Garry would never forget it.
https://reddit.com/link/nahzl5/video/gusse84jtmy61/player
Here is an excerpt from Garry Kasparov recent book "Deep Thinking" (Chapter 10):
Thanks to the honesty of Miguel Illescas [chess player who worked for IBM], we do know that IBM was willing to push the boundaries of ethical behaviour to improve Deep Blue’s chances in any way. In his 2009 “New In Chess” interview, he shared this remarkable revelation: “Every morning we had meetings with all the team, the engineers, communication people, everybody. A professional approach such as I never saw in my life. All details were taken into account. I will tell you something which was very secret. Well, it’s more of an anecdote, because it’s not that important. One day I said, Kasparov speaks to Dokhoian after the games. I would like to know what they say. Can we change the security guard, and replace him by someone that speaks Russian? The next day they changed the guy, so I knew what they spoke about after the game."
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Here once more is Deep Blue coach Miguel Illescas in his 2009 interview speaking about the fateful 6th game: “We were looking at all kinds of rubbish such as 1. e4 a6 or 1. e4 b6, giving as many forced moves to the computer as we could. On this same morning we also introduced the move Nxe6 in the Caro Kann played on the same day that Kasparov played it. That very morning we told Deep Blue: if Garry plays h6, take on e6 and don’t check the database. Just play, don’t think.” This was his bet, that the machine would never like this piece sacrifice for a pawn. And indeed, if we had given freedom to deep blue to choose, he would have never played it. I will not repeat here the stream of profanities in Russian, English, and languages not yet invented that escaped my lips when I first read that paragraph. What in the hell was this?
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[This was] an obscure variation that I had only discussed with my team in the privacy of our suite at the Plaza Hotel that week in New York.
What do you guys think? Do you believe Garry? Can we truly say that Deep Blue defeated him?
Since the game is like chess or strategy-based board game, wouldn't it make Google's Alpha or IBM's Deep Blue to learn how to play the game and just dominate the human race? I was thinking about AI who won over famous world chess player, Garry Kasparov, and famous Go-player, Lee Sedol. Would it be possible? I was kind of depressed for being bottom 4 for 5 games in role until I got 1st place afterward for building demon blade-master pirate comp. Anyway, just a thought that stuck in my head when Riot joked about making Faker bot as April joke from the past.
I'm writing an article talking about chess and technology. If anyone has an answer/explanation, it would greatly be appreciated!
