Sentences with phrase «grandmasters at chess»
Not exact matches
Not long ago, Google spent more than $ 400 million to buy industry - leading startup DeepMind, and scored a major tech and marketing coup when the computer AlphaGo defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol at the possibility - lush game of Go — an achievement hundreds of times more complex than when Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess.
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Whether he was looking at chess grandmasters, virtuoso violinists, world - class surgeons or sports stars, Gladwell found the same thing.
An inmate tied with a U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster at the first official tournament at New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex, where the game is part of programming designed to educate and reduce idleness.
The parents of a chess player worked janitorial jobs at night and sold things on eBay to be able to afford a grandmaster coach.
«The IBM chess computer Deep Blue, which famously beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, was explicitly programmed to win at the game.
Their skill at manipulating and «coaching» their computers to look very deeply into positions effectively counteracted the superior chess understanding of their grandmaster opponents and the greater computational power of other participants.
The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state - of - the - art PC but a pair of amateur American chess players using three computers at the same time.
A good analogy would be the unassailable «cyborg chess» championed by grandmaster Gary Kasparov since his famous defeat at the hands of IBM's Deep Blue in 1997.