A six game Deep Blue - Kasparov match, arranged by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in Philadelphia in February 1996 with a 500,000 purse, was a test of computer progress (IBM's Deep Blue with parallel processing capable of searching more than 200 million. Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 3 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time. The foremost computer chess program in the world today is IBM's 'Deep Blue'. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch. Deep Blue won game six, thereby winning the six-game rematch 3½–2½ and becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls. According to many observers, the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM computer Deep Blue in May 1997 was an 'historic event.' If true, then this match would seem to be the sort of event that would be of special concern to historians interested in the marriage of computers and history. Deep Blue was then heavily upgraded, and played Kasparov again in May 1997. However, Kasparov won three and drew two of the following five games, defeating Deep Blue by a score of 4–2. It is known for being the first computer chess-playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls.ĭeep Blue won its first game against a world champion on 10 February 1996, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in game one of a six-game match.
Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. On May 11, 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by scientists at IBM.