Issue No.01 - January/February (2006 vol.8)
Feng-Hsiung Hsu , Microsoft Research Asia
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2006.2
In May 1997, Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning World Chess Champion in an official match. This article reexamines the special-purpose chess hardware that provided most of Deep Blue?s computational power and explores design alternatives made possible by new technologies for similar tasks.
special purpose computing, integrated circuits, hardware
Feng-Hsiung Hsu, "Chess Hardware in Deep Blue", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol.8, no. 1, pp. 50-60, January/February 2006, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2006.2