Khodarkovsky & Shamkovich: A New Era (1997).

How Garry Kasparov Changed the World of Chess .

May, 1997. It was the match that stunned the world: Chess Champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by the massively parallel computer, Deep Blue - an opponent Kasparov had vanquished in 1996. But unlike his human opponent, Deep Blue could be redesigned in the intervening year. The result: the first "player" - computer or human - ever to win a match against the chess genius. Kasparov's own move-by-move analysis of these games in A New Era shows just how much IBM has improved the breed, and how they were spoiling for a fight in this momentous rematch. Yet not all the World Champion's rivals are machines. Two years before, Garry Kasparov defeated challenger Viswanathan Anand in eighteen demanding and gripping games. Here, for the first time, are move-by-move analyses by International Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich and by Master - and Kasparov second - Michael Khodarkovsky, which provide insight into the mind of the World Champion as he prepared for his matches against Deep Blue.

291 pages.

Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York 1997.

Condition: Publisher's softback. Some wear. Paper yellowed. The cover is slightly soiled.

Approx. unpacked weight: 300 g.

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