

Have been exulting, but I was feeling empty inside. Game when Hsu writes, “At the moment of Kasparov’s resignation, Intriguing was his emotions during the matches, in particular the 1997 final Thought’s coming out at the 1988 US Open held in Boston. Of the best tournament experiences of the machine to be captured in the chapterĮntitled, The Race for the First Machine Grandmaster chronicling Deep That Hsu was involved in a car accident that seriously hampered progress. Was enlightening to discover how the Deep Thought name was derived and the fact In all honesty I did not read anything groundbreaking concerning chess. I found the chip design chapters informative and never boring, while

To include material that people in the know in both fields of expertise foundĮngrossing. Have been a concern when writing the book to not dumb down either topics, but Maintaining an efficient balance with the chess aspect. The book indeed delves into some fairly heavy discussion of chip design while In American pop culture since he chooses to make a hilarious connection to the Television show) ever managed to be included in a quasi scientific work suchĪs this if it didn’t involve a prank? The author seems to be well steeped How on earthĬould Fred Rogers (of the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the PBS

Many of those stories illustrated the mischievous nature of Hsu. Story that encompassed a twelve year span of his life with making a consciousĭecision to write a book about the match “to set the record straight” Preface that this is not an “instant chess book” and concludes the Personally I was surprised to see at this late date that anotherīook on Deep Blue had been published. Hsu were to capture the true essence of the contest and to clarify his role The two main objectives successfully achieved in the book Behind Deep Blue,īuilding the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-Hsiung
