IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match. The discussion considers why that milestone did not eliminate interest in human chess, where competition and individual mistakes remain compelling.
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1:47:21Uh keep your head out of the gutter folks. We're talking about quirks. 1997 IBM Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov. I I was young but I even remember this. >> Yeah, this is even I I was in India at the time and it was huge because chess was a big thing in India. Vishnuath and Anand was um you know rising to stardom and here chess had been considered something that only humans can play right because there's that extra factor. Chess is an art. Um computers can't be intuitive. And suddenly IBM's deep blue supercomputer defeated the world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a six-game match. Um Gary very famously cried shenanigans and said that there they had
1:48:03grand masters behind behind it and like there was definitely a human involved and and like he he accused the IBM team of cheating. Um they had a final press conference where like they they tal they they like brought them all on board and like everyone booed the six computer scientists who had made Deep Blue because they thought it was going to be the end of chess. Far from it. Chess is super popular now because of that human element. We want to see who who does the least number of mistakes, you know, and I watch chess all the time. It's really fun. It hasn't changed because Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov. >> Arguably, right now it's having a renaissance with what's his name? Magnus Carlson. >> Magnus Carlson. Hikaro Nakamura.
1:48:44>> Yeah. There's a very popular chess players. >> Yes. Yes. I'm a big fan of Fabiano Caruana. >> Yes. Yes. In an era where you thought it was dead, it will always come back alive because the human element still matters.