Chess computer
device · 1997 · Digital age
Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
Developer: IBM.
What it is made of
- 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.
Principles and materials it uses
- Algorithm — uses. A search through the tree of moves.
- Chess — uses. It plays chess.
- Silicon — is made of. Deep Blue used silicon chess chips.
- Database — uses. An opening book and endgame databases.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- Expert system — evolved from. Symbolic AI.
What it is a kind of
- Supercomputer — is a kind of. Deep Blue was an IBM supercomputer.