Deep Blue’s victory was portrayed in the mass media as a referendum on human intelligence, a ‘canary in the coalmine’ moment in which the inevitable overtaking of human creativity by machine intelligence was made manifest.Ĭurious thing, though. To these three psychic wounds chess players can add a fourth: Garry Kasparov’s defeat at the hands of Deep Blue in 1997. And Freud himself landed the final, psychological blow, exposing the irrational unconscious forces beneath even the greatest achievements of human rationality. Darwin’s biological blow denied us the comfort of our separation from, and superiority over, the animal kingdom. The cosmological blow, struck by Copernicus, expelled us from our supposed place at the center of the universe. Sigmund Freud once described the “three severe blows” suffered by human narcissism in the course of Western history. Game Changer: AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI. My thanks to the good folks at Chess Life for allowing me to do so. Minor differences exist between this and the printed version.
A penultimate (and unedited) version of the review is reproduced here. This review has been printed in the April 2019 issue of Chess Life.
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