Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 Deep Blue–Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 is a famous chess game in which a computer played against a human being. It was the first game played in the 1996 Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov match, and the first time that a chess-playing computer defeated a reigning world champion under normal chess tournament conditions (in particular, standard time control; in this case 40 moves in two hours). Deep Blue was a computer developed by IBM to beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the top chess player in the world at the time according to Elo ratings. Playing
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