Chess is not dead yet (Score 2, Informative)

I was at Game 2 of the 6 game Deep Blue-Kasparov series and felt that perhaps Kasparov was making moves to throw off DB. Maybe this cost him the game eventually.

It was a great day for AI but in retrospect a sad day for chess. However it's going to a long time before Chess engines play chess with attitude, emotion and an individual style. If Chess engines just used minmax, alphaBeta pruning, the quality of play would not be very high. Storing opening lines and end game rules makes it a much tougher opponent.

However when these programs are able to store every combination of every possible game and then based the outcomes move up the tree to decide what move to make Then chess will truly be dead.

That will take more than a few EMC boxes! - More like (~35 options per move (starting with 20), ~100 moves per game) = 35^100 = ~2.55e+154 positions. Roughly assuming each position uses 64 bits = 1.85e+143 TB (> a googol Tera bytes!) When you have this 'database' 'populated' you can tell what moves ensure sucess by looking at the end node outcomes.

But for now Go play chess !