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Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere
Monty Newborn
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Description for Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere
Hardcover. More than a decade has passed since IBM's 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. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TBX; UYQ; WDMG1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
More than a decade has passed since IBM's 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; ... Read more
More than a decade has passed since IBM's 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; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
572g
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857293404
SKU
V9780857293404
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere
From the reviews: Newborn's new book Beyond Deep Blue ... includes 118 games played by seventeen different chess engines from Kasparov's matches with Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997 up to the 2010 world computer championship. ... This is a book primarily for computer scientists but one that chess players are also likely to find of ... Read more