Kasparov and Deep Blue

Bruce Pandolfin, renowned chess teacher and author, follows the man versus machine tournament in a game-by-game, play-by-play analysis that will reveal the significance of this important match. With numerous diagrams and easy-to-follow explanations of the key moves of every game, Pandolfini reenacts the drama of this intense week. Pandolfini then goes beyond this, in sidebars, tips, and short essays, offering a broader view of the match in terms of the history of artificial intelligence, computers' creative abilities, and whether or not human intervention was the ultimate cause of Kasparov's defeat, as the defeated champion claims. SC, 170 pages.