Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere [Paperback]

More than a decade has passed since IBMs Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at that time. Beyond Deep Blue tells the continuing story of the chess engine and its steady improvement. The book provides analysis of the games alongside a detailed examination of the remarkable technological progress made by the engines  asking which one is best, how good is it, and how much better can it get. Features: presents a total of 118 games, played by 17 different chess engines, collected together for the first time in a single reference; details the processor speeds, memory sizes, and the number of processors used by each chess engine; includes games from 10 World Computer Chess Championships, and three computer chess tournaments of the Internet Chess Club; covers the man-machine matches between Fritz and Kramnik, and Kasparov and Deep Junior; describes three historical matches between leading engines  Hydra vs. Shredder, Junior vs. Fritz, and Zappa vs. Rybka.More than a decade has passed since IBMs Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov. This volume provides an updated story of the chess engine and its steady improvement.

More than a decade has passed since IBMs Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at that time. Following Deep Blues retirement, there has been a succession of better and better chess playing computers, or chess engines, and today there is little question that the worlds best engines are stronger at the game than the worlds best human players.

Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere tells the continuing story of the chess engine and its steady improvement from its victory over Garry Kasparov to ever-greater heights. The book provides analysis of the games alongside a detailed examination of the remlC6