Deep Blue (chess computer) offer, but Kasparov refused a rematch. Deep Blue, with its capability of evaluating 200 million positions per second, was the fastest computer to face a world chess champion. Today, in computer chess research and matches of world class players against computers, the focus of play has often shifted to software , rather than using dedicated chess hardware. Modern chess programs like Houdini, Rybka, Deep Fritz or Deep Junior are more efficient than the programs during Deep Blue's era. In a November 2006 match between Deep Fritz and world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, the program ran on a computer system containing
Deep Blue (musician) Deep Blue (musician) Deep Blue is the alias of electronic and drum and bass musician, Sean O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe started producing music in 1991 with the hardcore band 2 Bad Mice, co-writing their hit, "Bombscare". In 1993 he began to write and release under the alias Deep Blue, producing "Helicopter Tune" (also heard in the PSP and PlayStation 2 game "GTA Liberty City Stories" in 2006 and in the game "Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition" in 2005) for the Moving Shadow record label. The track reached number 68 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1994. In 1997, Deep Blue was