World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. A historic moment—one that marked the first time a machine ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

This week marks 29 years since an epic man versus machine battle. It's when IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat Garry ...

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In 1996 a computer called Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess; the first time a machine defeated a reigning world chess champion.

He continued, "This is an existential moment, akin to what Kasparov felt in 1997 when he realized Deep Blue was going to beat him at chess," referring to Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...