Yasser Seirawan · Communications of the ACM 1997 · expert commentary · n=?

The implications of Kasparov vs. Deep Blue

Cited 21 times in the scientific literature.

Level 5 - mechanism / opinion, no new human data

Expert commentary and viewpoint piece; graded by design analogy (non-clinical).

OpenAlex W2084948667 · doi:10.1145/257874.257878 · record verified 2026-08-29

What was done

This two-part viewpoint gathers perspectives from Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan and computer scientists Herbert Simon and Toshinori Munakata to evaluate the broader implications of IBM Deep Blue's 1997 six-game match victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov for chess and artificial intelligence.

What was found

The abstract reports no quantitative measurements, experimental findings, or statistical data. It presents expert commentary projecting that significant artificial intelligence applications will emerge from the technology developed for Deep Blue.

Why it matters

The commentary captures early domain-expert perspectives from key figures in computer science and competitive chess following a historic milestone in machine intelligence.

Limits

This is an expert opinion piece and narrative commentary. It contains no empirical experiments, formal data collection, or technical analysis of the match games or underlying algorithms.

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