2010/05/11

This Day in History May 11 歷史上的今天 5月11日

We've all played a video game or two before. You've probably even played a game against the computer. This date became a significant one for gamers and computer engineers alike in 1997. A chess match was held between Gary Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer. At that time, Kasparov was a world-champion chess player and Deep Blue was the fastest computer that could play chess. The year before, Kasparov beat a different version of Deep Blue. This time, however, Kasparov was defeated. Deep Blue won the six-game match and became the first computer to beat a real world champion.
我們以前都曾玩過一 兩種電玩遊戲。你甚至還可能跟你的電腦比過賽。1997年的這天對電玩玩家和電腦工程師來說都是很重要的一天,因為一場蓋瑞.卡斯帕洛夫和 IBM(International Business Machines)公司所開發的深藍電腦之間的西洋棋比賽在這天舉行。當時,蓋瑞.卡斯帕洛夫是西洋棋世界冠軍,而深藍則是速度最快且會下西洋棋的電腦。 就在前一年,卡斯帕洛夫曾打敗過深藍的另一種機型。不過這次卡斯帕洛夫卻被擊敗了。深藍在這場6局的棋賽中獲勝,並成了擊敗真人世界冠軍的第一台電腦。

單字片語

●against prep.和……交戰(比賽、競爭等)
例:Philip will race against the world's top athletes at the Olympics.(菲利浦將在奧運比賽中迎戰世界頂尖的運動員。)
●significant 重要的,重大的
例:The computer is one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century.(電腦是二十世紀最重要的發明之一。)
●chess n.西洋棋
●match n.比賽,競賽
例:The soccer player injured his knee in the match.(那名足球員在那場比賽中傷到他的膝蓋。)
●beat vt.打敗,勝過
例:The mayor easily beat the other candidates in the last election.(那位市長在上一次的選戰中輕而易舉地打敗其他候選人。)

知識大補帖

1996年2月10日,卡斯帕洛夫就曾與超級電腦(super computer)深藍進行比賽,當時深藍是落敗的一方。爾後,深藍經其研究小組加以改良,於1997年5月再度挑戰卡斯帕洛夫,比賽在該月11日結束, 結果是深藍擊敗了卡斯帕洛夫。賽後卡斯帕洛夫表示,他不相信有這樣優越的電腦,因為深藍的表現完全沒有電腦程式的慣性,因此他要求重賽。IBM公司不但回 絕,還迅速將深藍拆卸,使卡斯帕洛夫無法如願以償地再戰一回。

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