Deep Blue was "in the early days of AI"??? The OP needs to study the field before making such pronouncements. There were many breakthroughs in AI 30 years bef

Deep Blue was "in the early days of AI"??? The OP needs to study the field before making such pronouncements. There were many breakthroughs in AI 30 years before Deep Blue. See, for example, Arthur Samuel's checker program from the early 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel