Deep Blue | Down the Rabbit Hole
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Published 2020-10-30
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Music by Ryan Probert: twitter.com/ProbeComposer
Graphic Design by Christopher "Arcaxon" Malouin-Monjaraz: twitter.com/Arcaxon
Saxophone by Naomi Sullivan: twitter.com/naomisullivan9
Vocals by Rachel Nicholas: twitter.com/_rachnicholas
"Chess Personality" Paintings by Anton Oxenuk: twitter.com/antonoxenuk
"Gambit" Chess Robot by DerEineSchwarzeRabe: twitter.com/D_E_S_R
All Comments (21)
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Errors: At 1:43:26, the wrong board position is shown; the proper board position should have been one move later, after each side had moved their rooks. Also, on 1:54:37, the knight moves from f6 to f4 when it should have moved to g4. To my knowledge, these are the only animation errors The song "Deep Blue" during the credits is available to listen on Ryan's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foDzxHHMRsQ
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"it made a move that surprised everyone in attendance: pawn to d5" me, who knows nothing about chess: no way
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The detail of Kasparov’s mother telling him to shut up is hilarious
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How odd a moment that was, when Kasparov lost the game to the first machine capable of beating him. "Where did I go wrong?" he asked his opponent, as someone who dedicated his life to his craft, with a deep understanding of the game. And yet Deep Blue couldn't answer him. It could only play chess.
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The computer mistaking the queen sacrifice as a winning game plan was quite endearing and childlike
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This quickly went from the creation of a chess computer to the shittiness of IBM
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“Stripped to his underpants, laid on the bed, and stared at the ceiling for a protracted period of time” ...relatable
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I'm surprised how sad this left me. All that build up, to a final match where the machine was bugged and making mistakes, and the master player was too preoccupied looking for tricks to see the computer as an opponent to beat. Ended not with a bang but with a whimper.
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His mother telling Gary to "shut up" made me spit out my drink, lol. One of the greatest minds in the world and he still has to put up with his mother. It makes me smile because we realize he's human just like us.
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He comes back every 500 years like a Phoenix, or syphillis
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"The two halves of Deep Blue stand in separate museums, isolated from one another, never again to be reunited for their intended purpose" damn man now I'm sad.
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I admire Kasparov's attitude towards technology. In the early years he saw himself as a way for computers to improve. Then to have Deep Blue drove him to the brink of a mental breakdown, he is still an advocate for it and all the good it can do. If that were me I probably would have cursed technology for the rest of my life, at the very least be very suspicious of it
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It really is cool to see how the question "can chess computers beat humans?" went from "It's theoretically possible but practically very unlikely to be competitive" to "It can play about on par with Grandmasters" and nowadays the answer is just "if a computer wasn't artificially impairing itself, no human nor committee of them could beat it"
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The part where the computer would sacrifice it's queen because grandmasters who sacked their queen normally won was so funny to me. He had the right idea, just not the right context
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Feng-Hsiung Hsu: I want to create the ultimate chess machine with the ability to defeat any opponent in it's wake! Garry Kasparov: I want to prove that I am the greatest chess player there ever was, human or otherwise! IBM: stonk
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I wasn't sure who I was rooting for until that part about IBM not letting Kasparov watch Deep Blues matches but after that I was 100% on Team Kasparov. That was dishonorable and gave their side a significant advantage. Also, you told this story really well. I know nothing about chess but this story held my attention the entire run. Well done and thank you.
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Kasparov’s mother screaming at him to shut up for complaining while the Deep Blue team tried to restart the program made me laugh so hard
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Kasparov: "theyre cheating!" Team blue: "yeah, so that was a bug"
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I dunno why it was weirdly wholesome to hear in the middle of the intense chess match "his mother was there and snacks were provided"
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I think it’s super encouraging how Kasparov is able to advocate for the advancement of the technologies that crushed his passion because of its capabilities outside of a chess game.
