Links of Interest

The 2003 Kasparov vs. Fritz Match

• Official Web site for the match
• Jonathan Schaeffer's detailed account of the match

  The 2003 Kasparov vs. Deep Junior Match

• ICGA coverage of the Match
• NY Times article about the match results

  The 2002 Kramnik vs. Fritz Match

• Press reports about the match.

  The 1997 Kasparov vs. Deep Blue Match

• Chess Base has detailed coverage of the match
• Science Friday on NPR
• CNN's Deep Blue Match Site
• Scientific American Article about the Deep Blue Match
• New Scientist Article about the Deep Blue Match
• IBM's Deep Blue Match Site
• A Grandmaster Chess Machine Article about Deep Blue in Scientific American written by the developers.

  The Future of Computing

• The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine by Ray Kurzweil - includes predictions of where computing power will be over the next 100 years.
• The Singularity by Vernor Vinge

  The History of Computer Chess

• Provided by Chess Base - developers of Deep Fritz
• Man vs Machine Chess Match - a history of such events provided by David Levy
• Computer Chess: The Drosophila of AI

  The Origins and History of Chess

• A Fascinating Story (of how chess was invented)
• The Real Story
• Historical Chess Collectables

  Other Difficult Games

• Havannah - offers $1000 EURO challenge til mid 2012. Average moves per turn is about 250.
• Go - programs exist which can defeat average players, but not the best. Average moves per turn is about 300.
• Shogi - programs exist which can defeat average players, but not the best. Average moves per turn is about 80.
• Amazons - programs and humans are about equal; maybe since the pool of human players is small. Average moves per turn is about 700.

  Academic Research on Computer Game Playing

• International Computer Games Association - Promotes research on computer game playing.
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence Games Page - collection of links to AI and games.
• University of Alberta GAMES Research Group - produces high-performance, real-time programs for strategic game-playing.
• Machine Learning in Games - a collection of links on how computers can learn to get better at playing games.
• GamesTheory.net - a collection of resources on Game Theory.

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