Deep Blue defeats the world chess champion
Deep Blue vence al campeón mundial de ajedrez
- Date
- 1997 · confidence high
- Place
- IBM; match in New York, United States (11 May 1997)
- Credited to
- IBM (Feng-hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell, Joe Hoane); defeat of Garry Kasparov
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Supercomputer with specialised chips that evaluated 200 million positions per second and defeated Kasparov in a six-game match. It was the first public milestone of machine over human in an intellectual domain.
What it led to
- The public perception of AI as a threat to human intellectual supremacy
- Chess engines that transformed the game and training
- AlphaGo and AI in games as a testbed
Built on
- alpha-beta search
- application-specific integrated circuits
- supercomputing
Made possible
- AlphaGo2016
- chess engines
- IBM Watson