Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere

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mentions [Glaurung](http://www.glaurungchess.com/) chess by a Norwegian programmer (which I ran on Palm OS circa 2000!) and [Stockfish](https://stockfishchess.org/), [the strongest chess engine](http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/) (and it's open-source!)* * *More than a decade has passed since IBM’s Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at that time. ***Beyond Deep Blue*** tells the continuing story of the chess engine and its steady improvement. The book provides analysis of the games alongside a detailed examination of the remarkable technological progress made by the engines – asking which one is best, how good is it, and how much better can it get. Features: presents a total of 118 games, played by 17 different chess engines, collected together for the first time in a single reference; details the processor speeds, memory sizes, and the number of processors used by each chess engine; includes games from 10 World Computer Chess Championships, and three computer chess tournaments of the Internet Chess Club; covers the man-machine matches between Fritz and Kramnik, and Kasparov and Deep Junior; describes three historical matches between leading engines – Hydra vs. Shredder, Junior vs. Fritz, and Zappa vs. Rybka.**### ReviewFrom the reviews:“Newborn’s new book Beyond Deep Blue … includes 118 games played by seventeen different chess engines from Kasparov’s matches with Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997 up to the 2010 world computer championship. … This is a book primarily for computer scientists but one that chess players are also likely to find of interest.” (ChessCafe, August, 2011) ### ReviewFrom the reviews: "Newborn's new book Beyond Deep Blue ! includes 118 games played by seventeen different chess engines from Kasparov's matches with Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997 up to the 2010 world computer championship. ! This is a book primarily for computer scientists but one that chess players are also likely to find of interest." (ChessCafe, August, 2011)