Kasparov Wants Rematch With Ibm

Still smarting from his loss to IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, chess champion Garry Kasparov says he wants a rematch.

But a less-than-enthusiastic IBM wasn’t biting.

“I hereby challenge IBM to a match of 10 games, 20 days long, to play every second day,” the world chess champion wrote in an essay published in this week’s Time magazine. “I think IBM owes me, and all mankind, a rematch.”

Deep Blue designers refused to commit to another face-off against the 34-year-old Russian. The computer beat Kasparov by a score of 3-1/2 points to 2-1/2 points in a match that ended last weekend.

“There are a lot of great chess players,” IBM scientist Jode Hoane told The New York Times.

Kasparov criticized IBM for not sharing its programming secrets with the chess world, but hailed the computer’s designers for putting together a machine that sometimes seemed to think almost like a human.

“I found myself unprepared for what turned out to be a totally new kind of intellectual challenge,” he wrote.