Deep Blue

  • Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov at Chess (1997)

    Today 28 years ago an AI beat a world champion chess master for the first time. Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer (IBM RS/6000 SP Supercomputer with 30 PowerPC 604e “High 2” 200 MHz CPUs and 480 custom VLSI second-generation “chess chips”). It was the first…