What chess computer is made of
Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
- ASIC — has part. Chess ASICs for searching positions.
- Chess accelerator chip — has part. 480 special-purpose chips for searching moves.
- Server — has part. IBM RS/6000 SP nodes.
- Algorithm — uses. A search through the tree of moves.
- Chess — uses. It plays chess.
- Database — uses. An opening book and endgame databases.
- Silicon — is made of. Deep Blue used silicon chess chips.