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Origin of the game<\/span><\/h1>\n

The origin of the game of chess is linked to a figure of an Indian dignitary who is presumed to have lived in India between 500 and 600 AD. The game then arrived in Europe around the year 1000 thanks to the Arabs. This inventor seems to have been called Sassa or Sissa; In some legends he is the son of an Indian king, in others a minister, and in still others a Brahmin.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funniest legend<\/em> sees Sassa as King Kaid’s minister, who bored after bringing peace to the kingdom, asks his minister for help. Minister Sassa talks to him about this game and teaches him about it. The king is satisfied and offers him a reward. Sassa, modestly, says that he wants a silver Diram for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on (the board has 64 squares). <\/span><\/p>\n

That is, for each square it must have a Diram number = <\/span>2<\/span>n-1<\/span>, which for the 64th square alone means 9.223372037\u00d710\u00b9\u2078 Diram. The total of Sassa’s request to his king is an expression of this type:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are other versions of the same legend, but with a king of Persia and instead of Dirams, grains of rice or wheat.<\/span>
<\/span>The only element common to the various legends is the name of the inventor Sassa or Sissa.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Man-Machine Challenge<\/span><\/h1>\n

Chess has always been considered a very intelligent game, which requires great intellectual abilities and which develops the same skills and concentration.<\/span><\/p>\n

It helps children to develop their intellectual abilities (moving them away from modern tools that depress them) and the elderly to stave off brain aging.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chess and computers have always gone hand in hand since the beginning of computer science<\/em>, precisely to justify the complexity of the game and man’s desire to develop algorithms capable of playing chess and able to compete with international grandmasters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first algorithms<\/strong> capable of playing chess were born in the late 1940s and early 1950s (Alan Turing was one of the scientists who signed these papers).<\/span><\/p>\n

The first software saw the light of day in 1967 (Mac Hack VI), then came programs for home computers (apple, spectrum, commodore).<\/span><\/p>\n

The question begins to spread: <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Will computers ever beat the man on the chessboard one day?”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In 1969 International Master David Levy bet over a thousand pounds with artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy who, ten years later, would not be defeated by a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

John McCarthy, for those who don’t know, is also considered the father of the Cloud Computing model.<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We have to wait until 1996-1997, when IBM’s DeepBlue supercomputer starts to win a few games against the world champion Kasparov.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kasparov played against DeepBlue 6 times in those two years:<\/p>\n

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