Deep Blue runs on customised computer hardware consisting of 256 parallel processors and is capable of analysing 200 million moves each second while Deep Fritz runs on just eight high-end processors and can consider only six million moves per second. This is because the possible positions of a chess board increase exponentially after only a few moves.ĭeep Fritz represents a shift away from brute computing force towards smarter software. Even with the highest speed processors, there are limits to what a computer can achieve with their calculating approach. Whether chess computers will inevitably overwhelm humans remains very much in the balance. The next chess challenge between man and machine chess will see Kasparov will take on another powerful chess program called Deep Junior, beginning on 1 December in Jerusalem, Israel. Kramnik admitted to be being exhausted after the final match, and made what he described as a “blunder” in game five, which he lost. But the computer clawed its way back, partly because, unlike its opponent, it did not grow tired. Kramnik’s simplifying strategy gave him an early advantage in the match and after three games he led by two and a half points to a half. “In the first four games Kramnik was absolutely perfect at removing complications.”

“I thought Kramnik had a much better style of playing,” he told New Scientist. Following the final draw, Kramnik praised his computer opponent saying that Deep Fritz “understands positional chess better than I could possibly have imagined”.īut Johannes Fürnkranz, an artificial intelligence expert at the University of Vienna, says the world champion often outplayed Deep Fritz tactically.

The eighth and final game was drawn in just 21 moves, making it the shortest game in the series. But the latest match has shown that human ingenuity can still compete with the massive number-crunching power of computers. When the landmark computer chess match between Gary Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997 ended in a computer victory, some observers suggested that computers had overtaken human players. The chess match between world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the computer challenger Deep Fritz ended in a draw on Saturday after the final point of the man versus machine contest was shared.

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