Deep Blue 1 – 0 Garry Kasparov

Deep Blue 1 – 0 Garry Kasparov

Il 10 febbraio 1996, 27 anni fa, il computer Deep Blue vince per la prima volta contro Garry Kasparov, il campione del mondo di scacchi. 

Kasparov, forse il miglior giocatore di sempre, perde alla 37esima mossa. 

anche se oggi è una cosa normale perché i computer sono potentissimi, quella partita rappresenta un momento storico nel rapporto tra gli uomini e le macchine.

Keywords

il computer: computer – 计算机

vincere: to win – 赢

il campione del mondo: world champion – 世界冠军

gli scacchi: chess – 国际象棋

perdere: to lose – 输

la mossa: move – 棋步

la partita: match – 比赛

storico/a: historic – 历史的

gli uomini: humans – 人类

le macchine: machines – 机器

Grammar

Numeri ordinali: “-esimo”
Ordinale numbers

“…alla 37esima mossa”
(…on the 37th move)

Ordinal numbers in Italian are numbers that indicate the order of things in a series or sequence.
Starting from 11, they are formed by adding the suffix “-esimo” to the cardinal number (e.g. primo, secondo, terzo…).

Here are the ordinal numbers in Italian from 1 to 10:

  • primo (1st)
  • secondo (2nd)
  • terzo (3rd)
  • quarto (4th)
  • quinto (5th)
  • sesto (6th)
  • settimo (7th)
  • ottavo (8th)
  • nono (9th)
  • decimo (10th)

 

Starting from 11, you need to add the suffix “-esimo/a” to the corresponding cardinal numbers:

  • undici > undicesimo/a (11th)
  • dodici > dodicesimo/a (12th)
  • venti > ventesimo/a (20th)
  • cento > centesimo/a (100th)
  • mille > millesimo/a (1000th)

Translation

27 years ago on February 10th, a computer defeated a world chess champion for the first time.

The game between Deep Blue, IBM’s supercomputer, and the Russian Garry Kasparov, perhaps the greatest player of all time, took place in Philadelphia, USA.

On the 37th move, Kasparov stood up and admitted defeat.

It was a historic moment because it represented a turning point in the history of the relationship between man and machines: today it seems obvious, but in 1996, still, few people owned a computer at home, and Google did not yet exist.