Computer chess convincing victory. In May 1997, an updated version of Deep Blue defeated Kasparov 3½–2½ in a return match. A documentary mainly about the confrontation was made in 2003, titled "". IBM keeps a web site of the event. With increasing processing power and improved evaluation functions, chess programs running on commercially available workstations began to rival top flight players. In 1998, Rebel 10 defeated Viswanathan Anand, who at the time was ranked second in the world, by a score of 5–3. However most of those games were not played at normal time controls. Out of the eight games, four were
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