Today, any off-the-shelf computer can beat even the world's greatest players, and there's plenty of media coverage about feats like IBM's Watson computer beating Jeopardy champs or Google's deep neural network AlphaGo beating grandmasters at previously unbeatable (and much more complex) games like Go.
We've always been leery of the idea of machines smarter than us, but somehow the Deep Blue matches became a turning point in the mind of the media that our days at the top were numbered. When Deep Blue failed to take the bait on a trap laid by Kasparov for an easy trade, opting instead for longer positional play, Kasparov was shaken, and failed to win a single game after that. But in 1997, after winning his first game, he became shaken by a newer, "Deeper Blue," which showed a depth and subtlety of play that the grandmaster was not expecting.
In their first meeting, Kasparov handily beat the Deep Blue, taking 4 points to Deep Blue's 2.
In a series of matches in 19, Kasparov took on a Deep Blue, a supercomputer running in massive parallel, allowing it to brute-force through possible chess moves quickly enough to allow it to play chess within classic tournament time constraints. If you want to see the strongest human chess player vs strongest engine and who will win, then, engines would reign supreme.Courtesy the New York Times' Retro Report, a look back at the chess match that was about much more than chess: Garry Kasparov versus IBM's Deep Blue. Deep Blue was far weaker than modern-day engines, say Stockfish or Komodo. However, this does not mean that in the current times, humans would beat computers without odds. So, I would say if this hypothetical match did happen and Carlsen plays at his best, Carlsen would easily win against Deep Blue. At the time that the match against Kasparov was played, computers weren't really stronger than humans.Īnd to be honest, I think, Kasparov lost because of his usually attacking instincts and the fact that he played openings that he never usually played.(This was because, he feared the computer had access to his games and he wanted to take the computer out of theory known at that time.) Even then, Deep Blue barely managed to win when Kasparov fell into a known trap in the last game. However, if it does happen, then I would favour Carlsen winning against the computer. So, I guess, we will never know what would have happened. Deep blue was dismantled soon after playing Kasparov.