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10 February, 2023

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Il 10 febbraio di 27 anni fa, un computer batté per la prima volta un campione del mondo di scacchi.

La sfida si svolse a Philadelphia, negli Stati Uniti, e mise di fronte Deep Blue, il super-computer della IBM, e il russo Garry Kasparov, campione del mondo in carica, e a detta di molti, forse il più forte scacchista di tutti i tempi.

Kasparov rinunciò alla sua 37esima mossa, concedendo così la vittoria all’avversario.

fu un evento di portata storica che segnò uno spartiacque nella storia del rapporto tra uomo e macchine: oggi può sembrare scontato, ma A quel tempo poche persone avevano già un computer a casa, non esistevano ancora le chiavette USB e Google sarebbe nato solo due anni dopo.

Keywords

il computer: computer – 计算机

battere: to defeat – 打败, 赢

il campione del mondo: world champion – 世界冠军

gli scacchi: chess – 国际象棋

la sfida: challenge – 挑战

russo/a: Russian – 俄罗斯的

a detta di: according to – 根据, 据说

di portata storica: of historic significance – 具有历史意义的

lo spartiaque: turning point – 分界点

scontato/a: obvious – 明显的

Grammar

Condizionale passato: “il futuro nel passato”
Past conditional: the future in the past

“Google sarebbe nato solo due anni dopo”
(Google would only be born two years later)

In Italian, the past conditional tense can be used to express future events from a past perspective. This is because it places the speaker in a past context, looking forward to a future event that had not yet happened.

In the above sentence “Google sarebbe nato solo due anni dopo” (Google would be born only two years later), the use of “sarebbe nato” (it would be born) places the speaker in a past context, anticipating a future event (the launch of Google in 1998).

Overall, the past conditional tense allows speakers to describe future events from a past perspective, and is often used in narratives and historical accounts to place events within a temporal framework.

Translation

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

The challenge took place in Philadelphia, United States, and pitted Deep Blue, IBM’s supercomputer, against the Russian Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion and, according to many, perhaps the strongest chess player of all time.
Kasparov resigned on his 37th move, conceding victory to his opponent.

It was a historically significant event that marked a turning point in the history of the relationship between man and machines: today it may seem obvious, but at that time, few people had a computer at home, USB drives did not yet exist, and Google would only be born two years later.

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