Deep Blue (chess computer) power. It was a massively parallel, RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system with 30 nodes, with each node containing a 120 MHz P2SC microprocessor, enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess chips. Its chess playing program was written in C and ran under the AIX operating system. It 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. The Deep Blue chess computer that defeated Kasparov in 1997 would typically search
Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 first time that a computer had defeated a World Champion in a match of several games. This, as well as the fact that Kasparov had lasted only 19 moves in a game lasting barely more than an hour, attracted much media attention. White: Deep Blue Black: Garry Kasparov Opening: Caro–Kann Defense, Steinitz Variation ("ECO" B17) 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 (see diagram) 5... Ngf6 6. Bd3 e6 7. N1f3 h6? (see diagram) 8. Nxe6! 8... Qe7 9. 0-0 9... fxe6 10. Bg6+ Kd8 11. Bf4 (see diagram) 11... b5? 12. a4