Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov Go is widely played in China, South Korea, and Japan, and was considered one of the four arts of the Chinese scholar in antiquity. Go programs were able to defeat only amateur players until 2015, when Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program surprisingly defeated Lee Sedol in the match AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol. While Deep Blue mainly relied on brute computational force to evaluate millions of positions, AlphaGo also relied on neural networks and reinforcement learning. "February 10". The first game of the 1996 match was the first game to be won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning world champion under
Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6 first time that a computer had defeated a World Champion in a match of several games. This, as well as the fact that Kasparov had lasted only 19 moves in a game lasting barely more than an hour, attracted much media attention. White: Deep Blue Black: Garry Kasparov Opening: Caro–Kann Defense, Steinitz Variation ("ECO" B17) 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 (see diagram) 5... Ngf6 6. Bd3 e6 7. N1f3 h6? (see diagram) 8. Nxe6! 8... Qe7 9. 0-0 9... fxe6 10. Bg6+ Kd8 11. Bf4 (see diagram) 11... b5? 12. a4