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Article: Chess champion sinks Deep Blue's figuring. (world chess champion Garry Kasparov beats chess computer Deep Blue)(Brief Article)
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- February 24, 1996
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When world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced the chess computer Deep Blue in a six-game match, the contest was not so much man against machine as man against men with machine.
By the end of the match, Kasparov had outmaneuvered Deep Blue's developers-Chung-Jen Tan and his team at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.-to win. But it was a tough battle.
"I did not expect that it would be that tough," Kasparov said after the final game of the match, held last week in Philadelphia. In 1989, he defeated Deep Blue's predecessor, Deep Thought, with relative ease (SN: 10/28/89, p. 276).
After a stunning loss in his first game ...