Deep Blue

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:29 PM

Deep blue was a chess playing supercomputer developed by IBM which defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kimovich Kasparov in 1997. It was developed by Feng-hsiung and his team in the quest to build a computer to take on chess grandmasters. It evaluates 200000000 moves per second compared to the 3 moves per second of the human. It relies on brute-force analysis of thousands of matches between the world grandmasters to pick its move.

So what are the parameters it evaluates?

Value of each piece - Each piece has a value attached to it - A pawn has a value of 1, knight 3, bishops and rooks 5, queen 9 and the king, beyond value.

Area under control - The computer tries to maximise the number of squares of the board under its control.

Safety of the king - Any move must only reinforce the safety of the king, since if the king is taken the match is over.

Tempo - this refers to the rate of advancing of the player.

Do these points enchance your game? Please comment your opinions/experiences here

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Deep_Blue

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/home/html/b.shtml

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