![]() Kasparov faces Deep Blue in their first match in February, 1996. Kasparov said of Deep Blue, “In certain kinds of positions it sees so deeply that it plays like God.” It went on to lose the match by dropping two games and drawing another. In the opening game of a match with World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, who some consider the greatest player in history, Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion under regular tournament time controls. The project continued when Carnegie Mellon’s Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, and Murray Campbell were hired by IBM and Deep Thought was renamed Deep Blue, playing on IBM’s nickname “Big Blue.” In 1988 Deep Thought defeated its first human opponent Grandmaster Bent Larsen. The project began at Carnegie Mellon University with chess computers Hitech, Chiptest, and Deep Thought that used advances in custom chip technology to incorporate search strategies in hardware rather than software, allowing for faster and deeper searching. The Deep Blue supercomputer was a chess computer developed by IBM. ![]()
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