Another World - Deep Blue Chess System.

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Since, besides our beloved Speckie, there are others in the world
platforms, then we will talk a little about them. But,
Of course, the main topic of our magazine will be spec.

               Deep Blue Chess System
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Here the story is about a system that lost to the great master
Mr. Kasparov with a score of 4:2. So...

The history of Deep Blue (hereinafter referred to as DB) began with the creation within the walls of the American
Rican University Carnegie Mellon (Carnegie-Mellon Uni-
versity) chess system Deep Thought (deep thought). Above
A large group of students and scientists worked there: Fan-Xuan Xiu
(Feng-Hsiung Hsu), Thomas Anantharaman,
Murray Campbell and others. At the same time in the same place
Another similar project was also being developed - HITECH, it was headed by
former world correspondence champion Hans Berliner
, - who, by the way, was present at Kasparov’s match with DB. Ideas
, which formed the basis of DT, turned out to be very successful, and in 1989
year, two of the DT developers were included in the IBM task force,
working on the DB project.
DT systems won against Bent Larsen, Anthony Miles. Because
DT did not beat Kasparov and Karpov, then IBM Thomas Watson Re-
search Center launched the Deep Blue project. Taking DT 2 as a basis,
the group startedto a radical restructuring of the entire system. D.B.
developed for the IBM RS/600 Power Parallel SP2 platform.
The design of chess accelerator chips has begun.
IBM invested a million dollars in DB. Can you imagine
such a lot of money? (how many Spectrums could you buy?
would...-ed.) Throughout the seven years of development, 5 people worked on the project
man.
By August 1993, IBM had assembled a working prototype of 10 nodes.
The current version of DB is an IBM RS/6000 computer
SP2 with 32 processor nodes. Each node contains a board with 8
processors; their total number is 256. The program is
written in C language, now for the IBM AIX OS. Search depth
DB - 7 full moves. The system is capable of evaluating up to 100 billion.
positions arising as a consequence of this move. Based on
from the fact that the total number of possible moves is 10 in
106 degrees and far exceeds the number of atoms in the universe
(10 to the 67th degree) - then this is a drop in the bucket.
All tournament and match games were entered into the DB database,
played by grandmasters over the last century. Was prepared
and a library of endgames that is activated when there is nothing left on the board
only five figures.
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