My favorite story from this whole episode is how a bug in the program “was likely what allowed the computer to beat Kasparov. In the popular recounting of Kaspa

My favorite story from this whole episode is how a bug in the program “was likely what allowed the computer to beat Kasparov. In the popular recounting of Kasparov’s match against Deep Blue, it was the second game in which his problems originated—when he had made the almost unprecedented error of forfeiting a position that he could probably have drawn. But what had inspired Kasparov to commit this mistake? His anxiety over Deep Blue’s forty-fourth move in the first game—the move in which the computer had moved its rook for no apparent purpose. Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered that it was simply a bug.” From The Signal and The Noise: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/26/nate-silvers-the-signal-and-the-noise/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/26/n...