Over the years he played matches all over the world, against increasingly sophisticated machines, until May 1997, when he lost the much publicised six-game match against “Deep Blue”, in New York. He developed quite early a keen interest in the field of artificial intelligence: in his first man-machine match, in 1985, he played against 32 different chess computers, in Hamburg, winning all games. From 1986 until his retirement from professional chess in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. Kasparov, considered by many as the greatest chess player of all time, became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22. We picked out from the book some of Kasparov’s thought-provoking views on the relationship between technology and privacy, a timely topic to reflect on as the EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on May 25. The book offers unique insights into “where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins” and the intricacies of what is possibly the most cerebral game in the world. In his fascinating 2017 book, “Deep thinking”, Garry Kasparov recounts his career as world chess grandmaster and his 18-year experience in playing chess against computers, culminating in the 1997 match against IBM’s “Deep Blue”.

By Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village

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