Can AI Beat You at Chess? (Spoiler: Yes)
From Deep Blue to ChatGPT — the weird, wonderful history of playing chess against machines, and why text-based chess is having a moment.
In 1997, Garry Kasparov — arguably the greatest chess player who ever lived — sat across from a machine and lost. The machine was IBM's Deep Blue, a purpose-built supercomputer that weighed 1.4 tons and could evaluate 200 million positions per second.
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