Man vs. Machine: Challenging Human Supremacy at Chess

Fascinating read covering computer chess engines against the best human players, including several world chess champions. Many annotated games. But lots of text too. If you don't want to play through all the games there are enough diagrams to follow along. Good read!

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Having lived through the rise of the chess machines, this book placed all of my thoughts and experienced within a well-written and well-documented history. Perfect that it combines two authors, one a computer scientist, the other a well regarded GM. The foreward by Kramnik is wonderful, an account of his life having o deal with these machines, not simply as an adversary but gradually as an indispensable aid. Even the Table of Contents is cool, itself providing a sense of the growing power of these machines through time. I play serious correspondence chess and there, while it is still possible to win, the machines have made it vert tough indeed. I was not aware of Fischer;'s game against MacHACK... very neat. I missed mention of Edward Lasker's article in the American Chess Bulletin, a funny article predicting that the machines would never play well, but overall, a very worthy and comelling read.

This is a good book, but the coverage stops around 2005.

Very engaging account of the development of computer chess. I really enjoyed this book. Recommended.