Deep Blue’s Facts

• 32-node IBM RS/6000 SP high-performance computer • Utilizes the new Power Two Super Chip processors (P2SC). • Each node of the SP employs a single micro channel card containing 8 dedicated VLSI processors • a total of 256 processors working in tandem. • Deep Blue's programming code is written in C and runs under the AIX operating system. • The net result is a scalable, highly parallel system capable of calculating 100-200 billions moves within three minutes

The comparison between Deep Blue and

• Deep Blue can examine and evaluate up to 200,000,000 chess positions per second while Garry Kasparov can examine and evaluate up to three chess positions per second

• Deep Blue has a small amount of chess knowledge and an enormous amount of calculation ability while Garry Kasparov has a large amount of chess knowledge and a somewhat smaller amount of calculation ability.

Computer vs Human?

Garry Kasparov is sitting down at the chessboard to take on Deep Blue, but he'll be competing against the wits of the collective intellect of five highly trained developers and one international .

Artificial Intelligence?

No formula exists for intuition. Deep Blue relies more on computational power and a simpler search and evaluation function.

Psychology ?

Deep Blue has no psychological perception, can neither intimidate nor be intimidated, and experiences no joy from winning or sadness from losing.

1 Deep Blue Strategy

• Material - Pawn is worth a value of 1, Knights and Bishops worth 3 each Rook worth 5, Queen worth 9, and, King is beyond value • Position - Counting the number of safe squares that a piece can attack. The more squares they control, the stronger the position • King Safety - The defensive aspect of position.The computer must assign a value to the safety of the King's position in order to know how to make a purely defensive move. • Tempo - the race to develop control of the board by making consecutive productive advances

The computer then searches through all the legal moves and chooses the one that yields the highest value. More Strategy

• Selective extensions - to examine chessboard positions. Selective extensions allow the computer to more efficiently search deeply into critical board arrangements

Together with its unique combination of innovate software engineering and massive parallel processing power. Deep Blue is the most powerful chess playing machine

The use of Deep Blue Technology • Deep Blue is a massively parallel, special-purpose computing machine

• Deep Blue, is capable of doing extraordinary amounts of computation in order to choose a good chess move.

• Deep Blue could be of great use to people if applied to finance, medicine, education, etc. Example • A system that can accelerate the molecular dynamics problem, that is the interaction between atoms and molecules, in order to predict the behavior of those molecules

• Pharmaceutical companies would use this in synthesizing drugs, predicting the behavior of drugs, before they even have to go to the trouble of actually synthesizing them and testing them. Other applications of Deep Blue technology • Financial modeling - Marketplace trends, risk analysis and more

• Data mining - Uncovering hidden relationships and patterns in large databases

2 Deep Blue Development Team Feng-hsiung Hsu The man who started the Deep Blue project while still in college C.J. Tan Senior manager of the Deep Bluedevelopment team Murray Campbell A former chess champion who works with Deep Blue's evaluation function A. Joseph Hoane, Jr. Deep Blue's software engineer Jerry Brody The project's support engineer Joel Benjamin Development team chess

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