Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov a draw by threefold repetition, starting with 50...Rd1+ and then 51...Rd2+. "May 11". Before the sixth game, the overall score was even: 2½–2½. As in game 4, Kasparov played the Caro–Kann Defence. Deep Blue made a daring knight sacrifice which wrecked Kasparov's defence and forced him to resign in less than twenty moves. Bibliography 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
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