Brains in Bahrain in 2001. The other competing program was Junior; the reigning world computer chess champion Shredder declined an invitation to compete. The 24-game match started very poorly for Fritz, which lost five games in a row before coming back strongly in the last ten games to tie the series and finally win the play-off. Fritz became Deep Fritz when its hardware was extended to an eight-processor machine for the competition. Kramnik was given several advantages in his match against Fritz when compared to most other Man vs. Machine matches, such as the one Garry Kasparov lost against Deep Blue in 1997.
Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov to exchange the queens. That would have allowed his pawn, which was about to promote, to advance. "May 3". The 1997 rematch began with the King's Indian Attack, which led Kasparov to victory in 45 moves. Deep Blue's 44th move in this game puzzled Kasparov, and he attributed it to "superior intelligence". Allegedly, the move was a result of a bug in which Deep Blue, unable to determine a desirable move, resorted to a fail-safe. Nate Silver proposes that Kasparov "concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence", leading him to lose the second game. "May