I had a short talk about the history of computers in Chess. These are the slides of that talk.

1. MAHDI TAGHIZADEH
OCTOBER 2023
THEEVOLUTION
OF♟CHESSAND
COMPUTERS

2. CHESS&ITSRICHHISTORY
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”
— Blaise Pascal
French mathematician & philosopher (1623–1662)

3. PRE-COMPUTERAGE
Chess Playing Machine
The Turk (1770)

4. EARLYCHESS
COMPUTERS
1956
UNIVAC MANIAC I
was the
f
irst computer
running a Chess program

5. IN 1959 SOME OF THE FIRST CHESS
COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS
PREDICTED THAT A CHESS
COMPUTER WOULD BE THE WORLD
CHESS CHAMPION BEFORE 1970!

6. 1967
MacHACK VI became the
f
irst program
to beat a human (1510 USCF rating), at
the Massachusetts State Championship

7. 1970
THE FIRST ALL-COMPUTER CHAMPIONSHIP WAS HELD
BY ACM* IN NEW YORK AND WON BY CHESS 3.0
* The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

8. 1989
Garry Kasparov
vs
IBM Deep Thought
[2-0]
THEBREAKTHROUGH!
IBMDEEPTHOUGHT

9. DEEP(ER)BLUE

11. FEBRUARY1996,GARRYKASPAROVBEATS
IBM'SDEEPBLUE4-2INPHILADELPHIA

12. 1997
Deep(er) Blue
vs
Garry Kasparov
[3½–2½]
COMPUTERDEFEATS
THEWORLDCHAMPION!

13. MODERN CHESS
ENGINES
Google Deepmind
AlphaZero
Stock
f
ish Leela Chess Zero (Lc0) Chess.com Komodo

14. CHESS&AI

15. Il faut être absolument moderne.
— Arthur Rimbaud