The James Altucher Show

A Note from James:I’ve done several hundred podcasts, but if people asked me who were the one or two people I most wanted to have on the show, Garry Kasparov would be at the top of the list. He was World Chess Champion for twenty years, and I’ve followed his career since the early ’80s.His book, Deep Thinking, tells the story of his matches against Deep Blue, but it’s really about what may be the most important relationship of this century: humans and machines.Episode Description:In this From the Archive episode, James talks with Garry Kasparov in his first appearance on the show. Kasparov looks back at the matches that shaped him: his comeback from a 5–0 deficit against Anatoly Karpov, the psychological side of elite competition, and his historic showdown with IBM’s Deep Blue.They also talk about why a computer beating a world champion did not settle the question of intelligence, how technology changes the kind of work people do, and why fear of making a mistake often causes the mistake itself. Kasparov shar