Behind Deep Blue
May 25th, 2010 chrisWhile at the Computer History Museum a while ago for the Big Data Workshop, I spent slightly too long in the gift shop nerding out and on impulse, picked up Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. My reasons were two-fold and pretty straightforward: I like computers and I like chess, so why not actually learn about the computer that changed the world more than a decade ago? But my expectations going in were surprisingly far off, as it’s not so much a book about computers and chess as it is a book about people who happen to use computers and play chess (and use computers to play chess of course). Yet it is the first book that I read cover-to-cover in a single sitting and simply could not put down.
