It was there that Hsu signed up for a microprocessor project during his sophomore year, an experience that in 1982 earned him a spot at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he began a Ph.D. Things might have turned out differently for Hsu, Kasparov and the world had Hsu not discovered computer science as an engineering student at prestigious National Taiwan University, in Taipei, during the late 1970s. “It’s always good to have people in positions of success that younger Asian Americans can look up to and aspire to.” ASSOCIATED PRESSīut if his depiction in the play is any indication, Hsu’s character will likely enjoy a prominent role in the storyline, a tete-a-tete between two passionate men, both foreigners in America, who had much to prove to the world and themselves. In this file photo Garry Kasparov, right, makes the first move in his final match of his six-game tournament with IBM's Deep Blue, the ACM International computer chess champion, led by Feng-Hsiung Hsu on Feb. A Disney spokeswoman declined to discuss details of the project. Until now, Hsu, who has worked in Beijing as a research manager for Microsoft since 2002, said he had never heard of Charman’s “The Machine,” let alone that Disney had acquired the script to adapt it into a motion picture.
For him, it wasn’t so much about credit as it was about respect.” He was a person who had a lot to prove, and he was underestimated. “He would trail blaze, and he was certain about that. “Just based on the script, he was a very passionate person,” Lee said. Which is why it is all the more surprising Kasparov gave up at this exact point in the game.Lee sees Hsu as a man whose own successes and failures in life shaped the soul of his machine.
Kasparov had battled Deep Blue at least eleven times prior to this match (six times in 1996 and five uptil then in 1997) and had managed to win convincingly against it, albeit with some losses - but this had not deterred him before. c4 looks completely harmless in this position.Īnalyses after the match and around the time predicted the position would be roughly even for several iterations Kasparov could have held out.
It was a shocking upset at the time because 19. The game is justifiably famous and is linked here.
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