Deep Blue (chess computer) to become familiar with computer game play in general. Writer Nate Silver suggests that a bug in Deep Blue's software led to a seemingly random move (the 44th in the first game of the second match) which Kasparov misattributed to "superior intelligence". Subsequently, Kasparov experienced a drop in performance due to anxiety in the following game. Kasparov rejects this interpretation. Computer scientists believed that playing chess was a good measurement for the effectiveness of artificial intelligence, and by beating a world champion chess player, IBM showed that they had made significant progress. After the loss, Kasparov said that he sometimes
History of the World (video game) dated", and that it "quickly becomes boring." He believed that the charm of the board game had been lost in translation, and called its full motion video "the ugliest I've ever seen." Trotter summarized, "It gives die-hard fans a chance to play online, and that's the only reason I can think of for buying it." History of the World (video game) History of the World is a 1997 computer board game developed by Colorado Computer Creations and published by Eidos Interactive. It is an adaptation of Avalon Hill's "History of the World" board game. "History of the World" was a