The two matches between IBM’s Deep Blue and World Champion Garry Kasparov were the culmination of the dream of machines mastering chess, a game once (and perhaps still) considered a touchstone of the intellect. A key man in that quest was British mathematician Alan Turing, who published the first chess-playing program (on paper) in 1951. 3.) The Greatest for the Longest: Garry Kasparov A smidge better than Karpov at the start of his career and a hair worse than Deep Blue at the end of it, Kasparov was nonetheless the No. 1 ranked player in the world for a staggering 255 months. Garry Kasparov talked about his life as a chess master, artificial intelligence, and the Deep Blue and AlphaGo Zero computer systems. “For those who say AI is making us redundant, I say no.” Home The Deep Blue computer had been designed by a team at IBM. makes a move for the IBM Deep Blue computer in a game 04 May in New York against World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (L). Credit: AFP)

But in 1997, a reengineered version of Deep Blue narrowly defeated Kasparov (IBM refused Kasparov’s requests for a rematch; the topic is thoroughly covered in the documentary Game Over: Kasparov

Nova episode on the Kasparov versus Deep Thought chess match in 1989. Deep Thought is the precursor to the IBM Deep Blue computer that beat Kasparov in 1997. yQCuWk.
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