Week 11

I heard about Alan Turing previously in cognitive science. We were studying the evolution of computers playing chess, and Alan Turing was one of the first to build a machine to do so. For a computer to beat the top player in the world, it has to be able to computer combinations of moves into the future. Your standard novice game might only look 1-3 moves into the future while the top player was able to look 20 or so moves into the future. Once the computer was strong enough to compute that far into the future, Deep Blue I believe was the first, it was able to beat the top players.