Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov

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11 May, 1997

A chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, defeated Garry Kasparov on 11th May 1997. It becomes the first computer to defeat a world-champion chess player.

A year before, though the computer had won its first game against the world champion, it lost to Garry Kasparov in the 6-game match.