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The 1997 tournament awarded a $700,000 first prize to the Deep Blue team and a $400,000 second prize to Kasparov. Carnegie Mellon University awarded an additional $100,000 to the Deep Blue team, a prize created by computer science professor Edward Fredkin in 1980 for the first computer program to beat a reigning world chess champion. [29]
This article documents the progress of significant human–computer chess matches.. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous success was the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, but there was some controversy over whether the match conditions favored the computer.
Deep Blue: 1996–1997: Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov: Bobby Fischer: Boris Spassky: 1972–1992: World Chess Championship 1972 Fischer–Spassky (1992 match) Viswanathan Anand: Vladimir Kramnik: 1989–present: List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik: Vladimir Kramnik: Garry Kasparov: 1993–2004: List of chess games between Kasparov ...
The Evergreen Game, Adolf Anderssen vs. Jean Dufresne (1852) The Opera Game, Paul Morphy vs. Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard (1858) Wilhelm Steinitz vs. Curt von Bardeleben (1895) Ruger vs. Gebhard (1915) Vasily Smyslov vs. Bobby Fischer (1970) Wchess vs. Deep Blue (1995) Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov, Game 1 (1996)
BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and Kasparov. Many chess players ...
The second was played in New York City in May 1997 and won by Deep Blue (3½–2½). The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world champion by a computer under tournament conditions. [188] The match was even after five games but Kasparov lost quickly in Game 6. Kasparov said that he was "not well prepared" to face Deep Blue in 1997.
Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. Kasparov won the first match, held in Philadelphia in 1996, by 4–2. Deep Blue won a 1997 rematch held in New York City by 3½–2½.
IBM sponsored the team starting in 1994, and the time of Deep Thought was ending. Finally in 1995, a new chess engine prototype was released from the team at IBM, Deep Blue. The engine was completed in 1996, and in the same year faced chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.