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Campbell et al: Deep Blue

Metadata

  • Title: Deep Blue

  • Authors: Campbell et al

  • Publication Year: 2002

  • Journal: Artificial Intelligence

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Abstract

Deep Blue is the chess machine that defeated then-reigning World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997. There were a number of factors that contributed to this success, including:

  • a single-chip chess search engine,

  • a massively parallel system with multiple levels of parallelism,

  • a strong emphasis on search extensions,

  • a complex evaluation function, and

  • effective use of a Grandmaster game database.

This paper describes the Deep Blue system, and gives some of the rationale that went into the design decisions behind Deep Blue.