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JamesClear.com • World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov on How to Build Confidence
In 2000 I met a former pupil of mine, Vladimir Kramnik, in a sixteen-game match for the world chess championship, my sixth title defense. I had won the title back in 1985, and headed into this match, I had been playing some of the best chess of my life. In other words, I was ripe for defeat. Years of success had made it difficult for me to imagine
... See moreGarry Kasparov • How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
The programmers behind Deep Thought, led by Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell, were eventually hired by IBM, where their system evolved into Deep Blue. Deep Blue did defeat Kasparov in the first game of a match in Philadelphia in 1996, but Kasparov rebounded to claim the rest of the series fairly easily. It was the next year, in a rematch in New
... See moreNate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Weak human + machine + superior process was greater than a strong computer and, remarkably, greater than a strong human + machine with an inferior process.
Garry Kasparov • How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Avoid change for the sake of change.
Garry Kasparov • How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
In the end, Kasparov did figure out a way to beat the computer: by outsourcing tactics, the part of human expertise that is most easily replaced, the part that he and the Polgar prodigies spent years honing.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
We all must walk a fine line between flexibility and consistency.