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by nas 4252 days ago
It was really fun at the time. Computer chess enthusiasts were discussing the match on rec.games.chess and analyzing real-time on ICC. PC chess programs could not check as deep as Deep Blue so there was lots of speculation on how good the AI actually was. CrazyBird's (Feng-hsiung Hsu) book is a recommended read.