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11th May 1997: Deep Blue chess computer beats Garry Kasparov
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-10 21:05:03
Description: On the 11th May 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions when it beat Garry Kasparov 3½-2½ over six matches. Deep Blue began life as a graduate research project at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Developed over 8 years by a team of eight computer scientists, it operated through brute force computing power.  Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per second. The Deep Blue team used records of Kasparov’s previous games to ...
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