{"id":6279,"date":"2012-05-13T04:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2012-05-13T04:47:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:47:48","slug":"a-jack-of-two-trades-and-a-master-of-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/05\/13\/a-jack-of-two-trades-and-a-master-of-both\/","title":{"rendered":"A jack of two trades and a master of both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM, in <a href=\"http:\/\/asmarterplanet.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/ibm%E2%80%99s-grand-challenges-pitting-machine-against-man.html\">recounting <\/a>its history of arranging high-profile contests between humans and computers, describes the tension surrounding the final chess game between Deep Blue and Gary Kasparov.\u00a0 One of the machine&#8217;s designers &#8220;vividly remembers the final game of the six-game match in 1997. Deep Blue was so dominant that the game ended in less than two hours. His wife, Gina, had planned on arriving at the venue in the Equitable Center in New York City to watch the second half, but it was over before she arrived. &#8221;\u00a0 To my mind, the machine&#8217;s raw chess prowess is less remarkable than its ability to multitask between chess and marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM, in recounting its history of arranging high-profile contests between humans and computers, describes the tension surrounding the final chess game between Deep Blue and Gary Kasparov.\u00a0 One of the machine&#8217;s designers &#8220;vividly remembers the final game of the six-game match in 1997. Deep Blue was so dominant that the game ended in less than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/05\/13\/a-jack-of-two-trades-and-a-master-of-both\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A jack of two trades and a master of both&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}