1997: Deep Blue becomes the first computer to defeat a chess champion in match play. A year earlier, Garry Kasparov rallied from a first-game loss to beat Deep Blue in the first high-level chess tournament ever staged between man and computer. Following the defeat, Deep Blue was reprogrammed by its IBM minders, and the two […]
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