Beyond Deep Blue Chess In The Stratosphere 1st Edition Monty Newborn Auth by Monty Newborn (auth.) 9780857293404, 0857293400 instant download after payment.

Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere tells the continuing story of the chess engine and its steady improvement from its victory over Garry Kasparov to ever-greater heights. The book provides analysis of the games alongside a detailed examination of the remarkable technological progress made by the engines – asking the questions which one is best, how good is it, and how much better can it get. * Presents a total of 118 games, played by 17 different chess engines, collected together for the first time in a single reference * Details the processor speeds, memory sizes, and the number of processors used by each chess engine * Reviews Deep Blue’s matches with Garry Kasparov in 1996 and 1997 * Includes games from 10 World Computer Chess Championships, and the three most recent major computer chess tournaments of the Internet Chess Club * Covers the man-machine matches between Fritz and Kramnik in 2002 and 2006, and between Kasparov and Deep Junior in 2003 * Describes three historical matches between leading engines: Hydra versus Shredder, Junior versus Fritz, and Zappa versus Rybka