Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The Chess Battle For Humanity

This is the Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue chess match of 1996 and 1997. Before the days of Alpha Zero, Stockfish, Leela... there was IBM's Deep Blue.

0:00 Intro
0:32 1996 GAME 1
7:02 1996 GAME 2
10:17 1996 GAME 6
14:27 1997 GAME 1
18:57 1997 GAME 2
25:22 FINAL GAME

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[badalkoirala]

Back then Engines were accused of using players and now players are accused of using engines.

[feellliix]

"You'll notice that he plays a reverse Grunfeld"
Me, 600 elo: mhm yes of course

[DanjasLP]

Garry in game 3 straight up went:
Garry: "Draw?"
Deep Blue Team: "Nah"
Garry: "It's treason then"

[theTman]

For anyone interested in how the engines work:
Brute force, used by Deep Blue and Stockfish alike, is simply just traversing a decision tree and evaluating every possible position with an evaluation function, or a mathematical equation that gives a score for each position. Stockfish is just able to do this a lot faster, because it does this with alpha-beta pruning, or skipping some branches of the decision tree because the score on others is high or low enough that it doesn’t need to evaluate every position. AlphaZero however, learns like a human by remembering patterns that lead to wins and storing them in something like a database to use for later. This is how it “learns” like a human does and seems to be more creative than other engines. It basically taught itself chess by playing against itself millions of times in order to build this database of moves. It’s a little more complicated than that, but those are the basics.

[jacobshahwan]

"I drew a treadmill"
This is what true advancement looks like

[benjaminoechsli]

Watching in December 2022, I'd love to see GMs of today take on these old engines.

[davidmikan]

2021: this human is cheating with an engine
1996: this engine is cheating with a human 😤

[DanielPetri]

This was fascinating to watch with modern engines in mind, thanks for taking the time to research all of that Levy!

[Randomguy-fuet]

"hey im watching in 2024" wtf I had a heart attack when you said that

[stefanmirea]

"There is a treadmill out there that plays better chess than you" sounds like the worst insult you can ever hear

[FakerUp]

I am not stronger than Deep Blue
You are not stronger than Deep Blue
He is stronger than Deep Blue

[Tinil]

Garry made the classic blunder that has been the downfall of countless powerful people; He underestimated his opponent. Trying to exploit the unique features of chess-playing computers was smart, and it mostly worked, but he put WAY too much confidence in his own understanding of how computers played and it backfired, he took lines he otherwise never would've taken just in an attempt to exploit their novelty and he paid for it when the computer didn't react as he expected it to.

But I suppose he figured that the computer would have the advantage in positional play due to being able to calculate so far ahead and it was worth the risk? Even though there were games where his strong positional play won him the game?

[furfox]

“I drew a treadmill”

- Levi Rosman, International Master

[youtubeviolatedme]

Player: *breathes*

Levy: "clearly, they are familiar with the Gothamchess video on effective breathing during chess"

[RichardGadsden]

I really wish we could have seen Garry stay on long enough to play Magnus on his way up: Garry vs Magnus in 2010 or so would have been magical.

[jacokyle]

Gary Chess vs. the Fax machine. Truly a legendary battle

[anrel_]

I love how genuinely he delivered the line "I drew a treadmill."

[christobita]

I'm watching 8 days before Christmas 2022. I'm not even big on Chess, I just loved your personality when I saw you on Lex's podcast.

[mathsolympiadtrainer]

Levy not wearing a hoodie is a rare sight...

[maxwellmondo]

12:10 when Garry puts all of his pawns on dark squares, it’s called “spatial dominance, ” when I do it, it’s called “light square weakness” or “mate in two” (whatever that means)