A new era : how Garry Kasparov changed the world of chess

"I tried to play through the rest of the game as best I could, but I lost because [Deep Blue] played great. It played like God." --Garry Kasparov In 1995, shortly before he was to play IBM's Deep Blue, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov defeated challenger Viswanathan Anand in eighteen demanding and gripping games. Here for the first time are move-by-move analyses by International Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich and by Master--and Kasparov second--Michael Khodarkovsky which provide insight into the mind of the world champion as he prepared for the match against Deep Blue. Garry Kasparov handily won his first match with Deep Blue, but it is clear from Khodarkovsky's description that even in 1996 the massively parallel computer could be a difficultopponent. Then, before the spring 1997 rematch, the IBM team let on that it had improved Deep Blue considerably and that it was spoiling for a fight . . . The analysis of these games in A New Era shows just how much IBM has improved the breed. Must-reading for anyone who is passionate about the world's most enduring game of strategy and wits, A New Era takes the reader inside the world of professional chess, offering insiders' insights (including those of Kasparov himself) into the politics and psychology of competition at the top levels of play, whether against human or machine. "A [match] victory by Deep Blue would be a very important and frightening milestone in the history of Mankind." --Garry Kasparov May, 1997. It was the match that stunned the world: Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by the massively parallel computer, Deep Blue - an opponent Kasparov had vanquished in 1996. But unlike his human opponent, Deep Blue could be redesigned in the intervening year. The result: the first player - computer or human - ever to win a match against the chess genius. Kasparov's own move-by-move analysis of these games in A New Era shows just how much IBM has improved the breed, and how they were spoiling for a fight in this momentous rematch. Yet not all the World Champion's rivals are machines. Two years before, Garry Kasparov defeated challenger Viswanathan Anand in eighteen demanding and gripping games. Here, for the first time, are move-by-move analyses by International Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich and by Master - and Kasparov second - Michael Khodarkovsky, which provide insight into the mind of the World Champion as he prepared for his matches against Deep Blue. Provides a play-by-play analysis of his rematch with Deep Blue, which he lost, and discusses improvements in computer chess technology