Title :
Chess hardware in deep blue
Author :
Hsu, Feng-Hsiung
Abstract :
In May 1997, Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion in an official match. This article reexamines the special-purpose chess hardware that provided most of Deep Blue´s computational power and explores design alternatives made possible by new technologies for similar tasks.
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; games of skill; general purpose computers; special purpose computers; Deep Blue; general-purpose supercomputers; special-purpose chess hardware; Asia; CMOS technology; Difference engines; Emulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Humans; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Supercomputers; hardware; integrated circuits; special purpose computing;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2006.2
