Garry Kasparov beats Deep Blue

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17 February, 1996

World champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM chess playing supercomputer Deep Blue on 17th February 1996 in Philadelphia. The match consisted of 6 games and though the machine had won it’s first game against the world champion a few days before, Kasparov finished by winning three and drawing two games.

A year later, Deep Blue finally became the first computer to defeat a world champion.