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How Chess Has Become The Test Bed For AI Researchers 

Efforts have been made over the past decade to teach artificial intelligence to beat humans at almost every game that involves strategy. All AI breakthroughs in previous benchmark games, be it checkers, chess, Go, 2 player poker, StarCraft 2 or Dota 2, AI was successful because it attempted to estimate widely popular strategy: Nash equilibrium. Chess has long been a benchmark of progress in machine intelligence, from Alan Turing’s 1951 program for playing the game (written on paper) through Garry Kasparov’s defeat at the hands of IBM’s Deep Blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7d1UR_PRGg Deep Blue is the chess machine that defeated then-reigning World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997. There were a number of factors that contributed to this success inclu
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Ram Sagar
I have a master's degree in Robotics and I write about machine learning advancements.
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