InfiniteSummaries reviewed Deep thinking by G. K. Kasparov
Not as insightful as it could have been
3 stars
[My review of the 12min summary]
This book is supposed to be about both chess and computer intelligence. Instead, it's mostly about chess. It gets into the computational aspects of chess toward the end of the book.
I knew a lot of this information already. If I hadn't, I probably would have rated it four stars. If both of these subjects interest you but you don't know much about them, you would probably like it more than I did.
Kasparov tells us about the history of chess, chess and madness, and the history of chess machines (starting in 1770). He then tells the story of the modern chess supercomputers and their competitions against the world chess masters, including his defeat by IBM's Deep Blue in 1997.
FINAL NOTES (quoted from 12min) "Intelligent, absorbing and provocative, 'Deep Thinking' by Garry Kasparov is simultaneously a firsthand account of a watershed moment in …
[My review of the 12min summary]
This book is supposed to be about both chess and computer intelligence. Instead, it's mostly about chess. It gets into the computational aspects of chess toward the end of the book.
I knew a lot of this information already. If I hadn't, I probably would have rated it four stars. If both of these subjects interest you but you don't know much about them, you would probably like it more than I did.
Kasparov tells us about the history of chess, chess and madness, and the history of chess machines (starting in 1770). He then tells the story of the modern chess supercomputers and their competitions against the world chess masters, including his defeat by IBM's Deep Blue in 1997.
FINAL NOTES (quoted from 12min) "Intelligent, absorbing and provocative, 'Deep Thinking' by Garry Kasparov is simultaneously a firsthand account of a watershed moment in the history of chess and artificial intelligence and an optimistic exploration of the future of human-machine interactions.
"To quote Kirkus Reviews, 'thoughtful reading for anyone interested in human and machine cognition and a must for chess fans.'"