A friendly game against Deep Blue at the IBM Research Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY in 2003. And no, it is not April fools 🙂
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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Never seen this one before. Nice!
LOL Yeah right :PP Happy April Fool’s day…
Who won Susan?
Deep blue was officialy dismantled after the Kasparov match.
Polgar,what are you talking about?
Deep Blue lives! It was a program, not just hardware!
IBM still has the code and it runs on machinery 1000 times faster than the original Deep Blue.
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That was a very poor and inefficient code without employing massive hardware (in comparison with other single CPU engines in 2003.).Main strenght of Deep Blue was hardware ,not software.
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Deep Blue in popular culture:
Deep Blue was seen on the Futurama episode “Anthology of Interest I” voiced by Tress MacNeille.
Servotron has a song entitled “Deep Blue, Congratulations” on their album Entertainment Program for Humans (Second Variety).
On the April 14, 2005 episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Stewart invited a fictional version of Deep Blue to comment on the recent extradition of former chess champion Bobby Fischer. Deep Blue didn’t offer any analysis of any kind, and repeatedly suggested they play chess. [2]
Deep Blue is a 1997 album and song by Peter Mulvey. The title song was inspired by the 1997 Kasparov match.
Deep Blue made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and was parodied on Late Show with David Letterman with Top Ten Ways Deep Blue is Celebrating its Victory.
Referenced in Pure Pwnage. Said to have been beaten by Teh_Masterer, who had used only a row of pawns and a single bishop.
In a Nike commercial, former San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson played Deep Blue in one-on-one basketball.
On the TV show Monkey Dust (Series 3 – Episode 6), in skit “They All Come Home”, Lieutenant Al Jablonski walks into the hanger and asks a soldier, Hershburg, who he is playing chess with on the computer. Hershburg responds, “a little tin-can called Deep Blue”.
On the TV show QI Steven Fry said that part of deep blue was currently being used as a booking clark for united airline. This was later discovered to be a lie.
On the TV show King of the Hill, Dale Gribble quoted “Computers are already beating Communists at chess, next they’ll be beating Humans” citing Deep Blue beating Kasparov in the chess match.
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