This story originally published in December 2020.
The cracks in Garry Kasparov’s armor began to show around move 13 of his first encounter with Deep Blue.
The IBM supercomputer had been under development for six years in preparation to face Kasparov, the chess Grandmaster and highest-ranked player in the game’s history. Set for a best-of-six match, all eyes were on the convention center in Philadelphia nearly a quarter-century ago to discover whether one of the world’s greatest strategic minds could be toppled by a machine.
