Deep Blue (chess computer) the team in 1990. The team was managed first by Randy Moulic, followed by Chung-Jen (C J) Tan. After Deep Thought's 1989 match against Kasparov, IBM held a contest to rename the chess machine and it became "Deep Blue", a play on IBM's nickname, "Big Blue". After a scaled-down version of Deep Blue, Deep Blue Jr., played Grandmaster Joel Benjamin, Hsu and Campbell decided that Benjamin was the expert they were looking for to develop Deep Blue's opening book, and Benjamin was signed by IBM Research to assist with the preparations for Deep Blue's matches against Garry Kasparov. In 1995
Deep Blue (video game) deep. Alone, players control the Earth's only defense against the attack, the A.N.G.E.L. Fish Attack Sub. "Deep Blue" is a basic horizontal scrolling shooter: players collect power-ups and different weapons to fight numerous enemies. The screen scales up and down allowing more vertical space. The game features a single life; the Angel Fish can take a lot of hits before it is destroyed, and even regenerates over time. Damage levels are represented by the color of the ship's 'eyes': they start out a solid blue, but when damaged, the eyes blink blue until going to green, then yellow, then red.