Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997 game 2

[dkl]

In his memoir, Kasparov (Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins) writes:

"On what mattered most, on what really destroyed my composure, I was wrong and owe the Deep Blue team an apology. The moves in game two that left me with a lost position and crushed morale were unique only for the time. Within five years, commercial engines running on standard Intel servers could reproduce all of Deep Blue's best moves, even improving on some of the humanlike moves that so impressed me and everyone else at the time. The engine on my laptop today slightly favors the shockingly humanlike move 37.Be4 from game two in less than ten seconds,"

It's very very late, but then again, it's an apology - which shows some stature.

The apology, no matter how belated, is gracious, and Kasparov deserves a bit of credit for offering it.

On the hand yes, indeed - it deserves credit.

On the other hand: If you make absolutely bogus defamatory claims without any proof, then morally an apology is required, not optional.

[MikeB]

The biggest blunder was made by IBM when they demantled Deep Blue after the match was over.

[ernest]

Why was that a blunder ?