"Kasparov told a packed audience that the first chess program in history was written a few years before computers had been invented. It was designed by Alan Turing. Since there was as yet no machine that could execute the instructions he did so himself, acting as a human CPU and requiring more than half an hour per move. Kasparov sketched the historical context of Turing’s involvement in chess and then went on to describe how chess computer experts had reconstructed the paper machine to run on a modern day computer." http://chessbase.com/newsdet... \\ Not sure if Kasparov mentioned his ultimate defeat to Deep Blue :-) - Adriano

Kasparov concluded that Deep Blue's counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence -- but it was simply a bug !! http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... - Adriano