Deep Blue Against Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1. He is one of the smartest persons of the world with an IQ-190.

Could someone beat a chess grandmaster in his own game?

But as it is been said that “No Matter How Often You Are Defeated,You Are Born To Victory”

Same happened with Garry he was been defeated by a computer DeepBlue, he had once bragged he would never lose to a machine.

Deep Blue was a chess playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first computer chess playing system to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time intervals.

Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine.

Deep Blue was capable of evaluating 200 million positions per second, twice as fast as the 1996 version. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer according to the TOP500 list, achieving 11.38 GFLOPS on the high performance LINPACK benchmark.

In defeating Kasparov on May 11 1997, Deep Blue made history as the first computer to beat a world champion in a six game match under standard time controls.

The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by Kasparov. The second was played in New York City in 1997 and won by Deep Blue. The 1997 match was the first defeat of the reigning chess player. The 1997 match was the subject of a documentary film, The Man vs. The Machine.

After only 19 moves, Deep Blue claimed victory over the chess champ, marking a key milestone in the burgeoning world of artificial intelligence. ” I lost my fighting spirit”, Kasparov said as he resigned the final game, reported The New York Time.

It was the first time a chess champion was bested by a machine in a traditional chess match, and it was a stunning demonstration of the computing power of machines over the human brain. In the best of five match, Kasparov won the first game, Deep Blue won the second and then the subsequent three matches ended in draws, setting the stage for the sixth and final game.

After the fifth game, Kasparov said he had not been in the mood for playing and when asked to elaborate on his outlook he said ” I am a human being. When I see something that is well beyond my understanding, I am afraid ” he said according to the Times.