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
Computer Gaming World "Best Professional Adventure Gaming Magazine of 1987". "The New York Times" repeatedly praised CGW, placing it as one of the premier computer game publications of its time. In 1997 the newspaper called it "the leading computer game magazine", In 1999 "the bible of computer game purists", and in 2005 "one of the top computer game magazines". On August 2, 2006, Ziff Davis Media issued a press release detailing their plans to halt circulation of "Computer Gaming World". As part of a joint-venture project with Microsoft, Ziff Davis launched a new magazine dubbed "" in Fall of 2006. The new magazine