![]() He’s also a fine writer, so the piece is a delight to read. He’s a formidably intelligent person (duh) who has thought deeply about the implications of the computerization of his profession. It’s ostensibly a review of the book Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind, by Diego Rasskin-Gutman, but much more interesting for me were Kasparov’s insights on the interplay between people and computers around the game of chess. Kasparov himself reminded me of the match in an article he published in the February 11 issue of the New York Review of Books. I remember thinking vaguely that this represented a turning point of some kind, and then pretty quickly put it out of my mind. Like a lot of people, I heard back in 1997 that the IBM chess computer Deep Blue had beaten world champion Garry Kasparov.
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