Race Against the Machine
Game Over?
Today in 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue became the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion, Garry Kasparov, under regular time controls.
Deep Blue won one game, tied two and lost three. The next year, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a six-game match -- the first time a reigning world champion lost a match to a computer opponent in tour…
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