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

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 ...

and contributions to the game’s theory and practice. The famous match you’re referring to is likely the one between IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue and the chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

During the Kasparov-Deep Blue second match there was some serious talk of Blue playing moves it wasn’t programmed to play ... IBM. It was also a significant milestone in the history of chess ...

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And in May 1997 the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated the world chess ... humans were uniquely intelligent. Chess, they argued, was a boringly logical game: computers didn’t need intuition to ...