Author: Jonathan Schaeffer
Date: 12:42:36 09/23/97
> Chess chess whiz moves on to other pursuits > September 23 news item: IBM's chess whiz moves on to other pursuits YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. (AP) -- Great hobby, Deep Blue. Now get back to work. Having defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, IBM has turned down his request for a man vs. machine rematch and assigned its chess-playing supercomputer, dubbed Deep Blue, to number-crunching research. ``We've climbed Mount Everest, and now it's time to move on,'' IBM spokeswoman Melinda McMillan said Monday at the company's Watson Research Center. Deep Blue, which had been programmed to examine 200 million chess moves per second, defeated Kasparov in May. A less sophisticated version lost to him in 1996. Last week, IBM turned down the human's bid for a third contest. Kasparov's agent, Owen Williams, would not comment on Deep Blue's retirement from the world of bishops, rooks and pawns. The computer will now be used to analyze data on finance, investment and medicine.
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