World chess champion Garry Kasparov, left, resigns his game against IBM's chess playing computer, Deep Blue, on May 11 1997, in New York. At right is Joseph Hoane, Jr., an IBM Deep Blue computer World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov resigned the last game of a six-game match against IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer on 11 May 1997, his loss marked achievement of this goal. The quest for a “chess machine” dates back to 1769 when the Turk—with a human play-er hidden inside—debuted in the Austrian court. The arrival of electronic Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov 1997 was a six-game chess match, where Deep Blue won the match 3.5–2.5. AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol 2016 was a five-game Go match, where AlphaGo won the matches 4–1. The matches of Deep Blue and AlphaGo were twenty years apart. Wikipedia says: The computer is aided by having this knight sacrifice programmed into its opening book. This move had been played in a number of previous high-level games, with white achieving a huge plus score. As an indication of how far computer chess has progressed in the 20 years after this match, modern programs deprived of their opening Courtesy the New York Times' Retro Report, a look back at the chess match that was about much more than chess: Garry Kasparov versus IBM's Deep Blue. In a series of matches in 1996 and 1997 Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov 1997 Game 2Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player of all time, and most famous player of all time with his uniquely And it fulfilled that mission. On Feb. 10, 1996, the reigning world chess champion lost a game to a computer for the first time in history. Kasparov would win the 1996 match four games to two, but Absolutely no credit taken personally!_____Movie trailer from the documentary "Game Over: Kasparov and the M ddI0p.