Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan famously stated that “it was an incredibly refined move, of defending while ahead to cut out any hint of countermoves”. He went so far as to suggest some sort of human intervention took place during the game. The chess grandmaster was in complete disarray after Deep Blue made this move and believed the move was too sophisticated for a computer to make on its own. The computer chose not to capture an exposed pawn in favor of another route - an odd sacrifice that back then seemed far beyond the strategic foresight of a computer. The computer apparently made a sacrifice that seemed to hint at its long-term strategy. Kasparov along with other chess masters blame the defeat on one single move made by IBM’s Deep Blue. It’s the backstory that intrigues psychologists, psychiatrists, artificial intelligence engineers, and computer scientists to this day. Having once bragged that he would never lose to a machine, Kasparov did just that. In May of 1997, IBM’s chess-playing computer Deep Blue challenged the World Champion of Chess, Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, to a single game that would make history. In this post, we’Il explain the fascinating history of the IBM Deep Blue bug. Welcome to another edition of our Famous Bugs series! We hope you get a serious laugh out of other people’s pains that came before us.
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