Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. 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 a reigning world chess champion by a computer under tournament conditions. The 1997 match was the subject of a documentary film, "The Man vs. The Machine". Deep Blue's win was seen as symbolically significant,
Blue Force being sentenced to 15 years in prison. "Computer Gaming World"s Charles Ardai in 1993 stated that "Blue Force" "is simply not as strong as Walls' previous games". He criticized the game world ("prop-up facades"), "abysmal" dialogues, "appalling spelling errors and factual inconsistencies", and slow speed. Ardai concluded that "Walls and Tsunami both have better work in them ... they have nowhere to go but up". In 1996, "Computer Gaming World" declared "Blue Force" the 37th-worst computer game ever released. Blue Force Blue Force is a computer game for MS-DOS released in 1993 by former Police Quest designer Jim Walls. The