When Garry Kasparov beat IBM’s chess computer in 1989 he told the programmers to “teach it to resign earlier”. Editorial: Mr Kasparov and the deep blues – the world’s greatest living chess player is beaten by IBM He left the Pennsylvania Convention Centre without speaking to reporters, and chess colleagues described him as devastated. He said at some points during the game, Deep Blue was analysing more than 100 million chess positions a second.Īt the end, Mr Kasparov reached across the board to shake hands with Feng-Hsiung Hsu, the IBM scientist who moved the pieces for Deep Blue. “We’ve got one of the greatest concentrations of computing power ever focused on a single problem working here,” said Joseph Hoane, who has worked on Deep Blue software for more than six years.
