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Deep Blue: Judgment Written

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Deep Blue beat the world chess champion with massive search plus an evaluation function crafted by people — and no learning anywhere in the machine.

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By its maker's account: thirty-two processors, two hundred million positions per second, evaluation sharpened by hand between the 1996 and 1997 matches.

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Industrial scale did not change the machinery's kind — striped-tree search with a written judge.