Deep Blue defeated the best human chess player using large amounts of calculation. When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the worlds greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in the last game of a six-game match on May 11, 1997, the world was astonished. Deep Blue, computer chess -playing system designed by IBM in the early 1990s. 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. Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. When it beat Garry Kasparov in 1997, it was the first and only time a World Chess Champion was defeated by a computer.Īt long last, the promise of the mythical Turk and the dream of the early computer pioneers had become real. One of 2 racks of Deep Blue, at the Computer History Museum. Their development program in late 1989 resulted in a specialized chess computer called Deep Blue. The recognition that would come if one did defeat the World Chess Champion got IBM interested in the challenge. Paperback (Trade paperback US) Revised edition Apr 2004. But after dramatic games in 1989 in which two widely-respected Grandmasters were defeated by Carnegie Mellon University’s Hitech and Deep Thought chess machines, the goal of defeating the World Chess Champion seemed within reach. Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion Feng-Hsiung Hsu. 2 Kasparov had beaten a previous version of Deep Blue in 1996. 1 Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM refused and dismantled Deep Blue. Deep Blue in IBMs headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. At the 1984 ACM conference, a panel of experts could not agree whether a computer would ever defeat the top human chess player. Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM.On May 11, 1997, the machine won the second six-game match against world champion Garry Kasparov by two wins to one with three draws. The duo continued developing a chess-playing machine but this time with other computer scientists working on the Deep Blue project. Deep Blue is a special (not general purpose) machine, designed specially to play chess: hardware and.
In 1978, International Master David Levy won a bet made ten years earlier that no computer would beat him. Quite far away regarding chess playing capabilities.