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Title: Behind Deep Blue : Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-Hsiung Hsu ISBN: 0-691-09065-3 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (17 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Best computer chess book since that second match
Comment: I am also a hardware engineer. Since 1984 studied chess programs like: Sargon, GNU, and Phalanx; didn't know how to make hardware for chess playing machine. Then Hsu's book gave very good lead, simplified it to 3 keys functions: move generator, position evaluation, and program comtrol, that's all. Some reviewer wanted more details like how the evaluation works; some said it was too technical. I think the book is excellent, maybe a little more in the author's specialty: chip design. Anyway the book is for general readers, like a PG-13 movie; he keeps the technical parts enough both spectrum of audience (even though I like too read more about the technical part, I want the author to win more audience.) After that match in 1997, I could not find more good computer chess books besides Newborn's Kasparov versus Deep Blue. I guessed the researchers began to lose interests in it because Mission Accomplished.
By the way, if you want to know more about how chess program works (for example: position evaluation); please study "FREE" GNUChess. I learn very much from it. It's worth the effort.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Truth About Deep Blue
Comment: I really loved this book. Besides the interesting story behind the creation of the Deep Blue chess computer, this book tells the real story of the matches between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov. Anybody interested in chess or computers would enjoy this book!

Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing story told with lots of heart
Comment: For a book on the arcane and technical worlds of computer science and chess, this story is highly readable and entertaining, and often quite funny and deeply poignant. The development of a history-making machine was, in the end, a very human adventure.

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