Deep Blue rediscovered! 1997 Match against Garry Kasparov - Game 2: the Empire strikes back!

Game 2 is one of the most famous games ever played. It certainly gave us a foretatste of how strong engines would become in the future as Deep Blue played the white side of a Ruy Lopez in the style of a great 1.e4 strategist. Or did it? ;) The sources consulted include: Behind Deep Blue (Feng-hsiung Hsu) Deep Blue (Murray Campbell, A.Joseph Hoane Jr, Feng-hsiung Hsu) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0004-3702(01... Knowledge Discovery in Deep Blue (Murray Campbell) https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/31... Deep Thinking (Garry Kasparov) Deep Blue logs (1997 match only) The Reunion: Deep Blue v Kasparov hosted by Kirsty Wark https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001... Game Over (2004 film) Annotations 1996 match Powerplay channel (   • Garry Kasparov vs Deep Blue 1996 Game 1  ) 1997 match Yasser Seirawan (Inside Chess via Chess Cafe archives) KASPAROV V DEEPER BLUE (Daniel King; also includes 1996 match) Chessbase (John Nunn) I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler, a 2-times British Champion, and ranked in the world’s top 50 for many years. I’m also a prolific author. My latest book "Re-Engineering the Chess Classics" appeared in May 2023. It uses the techniques described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" to analyse afresh thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters. "Re-Engineering the Chess Classics" is available from here: https://www.newinchess.com/re-enginee... (Paperback English edition) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Re-Engineeri... (Paperback English edition) "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" – which came out in October 2021 is, just like this channel, all about learning from and training with engines. The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement is available from here: https://www.newinchess.com/engine-tra... (Paperback English edition) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/905... (Paperback and Kindle) https://forwardchess.com/product/the-... (Digital) "Game Changer" came out on 20th January 2019 and won the prestigious ECF Book of the Year and FIDE Book of the Year prizes for 2019! The award-winning Game Changer – written together with Natasha Regan – brought the amazing chess games of DeepMind’s AlphaZero to the world. The Game Changer chess book is available in print and digital versions from these links: http://newinchess.com/game-changer (Paperback English edition) https://forwardchess.com/product/game... (Digital) https://www.chessable.com/game-change... (Digital) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/905... (Paperback and Kindle) https://www.amazon.de/Zeitenwende-Sch... (Hardback German edition) #siliconroad #matthewsadler #reengineering