(“The Brain’s Last Stand” read the Newsweek headline.) Others shrugged their shoulders, surprised that humans could still compete at all against the enormous calculating power that, by 1997, sat on just about every desk in the first world. The result was met with astonishment and grief by those who took it as a symbol of mankind’s submission before the almighty computer. Then, in 1997, IBM redoubled its efforts-and doubled Deep Blue’s processing power-and I lost the rematch in an event that made headlines around the world. machine chess.Įleven years later I narrowly defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue in a match. From the human perspective, or at least from my perspective, those were the good old days of man vs. Eventually I found a way to trick the machine with a sacrifice it should have refused. If this machine scored a win or even a draw, people would be quick to say that I had thrown the game to get PR for the company, so I had to intensify my efforts. At one point I realized that I was drifting into trouble in a game against one of the “Kasparov” brand models. It illustrates the state of computer chess at the time that it didn’t come as much of a surprise when I achieved a perfect 32–0 score, winning every game, although there was an uncomfortable moment. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their top models, including eight named after me from the electronics firm Saitek. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours. In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. Probably, we are making similar mistakes like him! We will analyze them, and I will try to give you a way to solve the different types of mistakes.Garry Kasparov during his rematch against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, 1997 We will check his games calmly and try to learn as much as possible from each of his moves. This 13-hour course will be divided like this: We will analyze what he did well and what he did wrong. In this course, we will go through his games.
When he was White, he could show all his potential and from these games we can learn a lot. Why did I choose only games with White? Many times, with Black is not so easy to get good positions all the time (although he was an expert at this!).
1984 is the year he qualified for the Candidates after beating the always young Smyslov. In this course, I will focus on the period 1979-1983 for a simple reason: 1979 is the year when Kasparov played the famous tournament in Banja Luka where many grandmasters were against his participation… He won the tournament and it was clear to everyone that a star was rising. His attacking chess, the way he played with the initiative, his amazing opening ideas… So many things can be said about his contribution to chess! Gary Kasparov is probably the most attractive chess player of chess history.
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