Deep Blue was a computer system developed by IBM to play chess at a level that could challenge and eventually defeat the world's best human players. Here are some key aspects and historical facts about Deep Blue:
Deep Blue was developed by IBM's Research division starting in 1985, with the initial project known as Chiptest, evolving into Deep Thought before finally being named Deep Blue. The project was led by Feng-hsiung Hsu, a Chinese-American computer scientist, along with Murray Campbell and Joseph Hoane.
The system consisted of a custom-designed RS/6000 SP supercomputer with 30 processors, each capable of evaluating up to 200 million chess positions per second. It had specialized hardware for chess evaluation, including hardware for search, evaluation, and move generation. The software was a combination of brute-force search algorithms and sophisticated evaluation functions, which included opening books and endgame databases.
After the 1997 match, IBM retired Deep Blue and it was disassembled. The success of Deep Blue had a profound impact on:
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