Deep Blue

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Deep Blue is a renowned chess-playing computer system developed by IBM in the early 1990s. It was designed to succeed where its predecessors, Chiptest and Deep Thought, had not. Deep Blue's development began in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University and later transitioned to IBM in 1989. The system was built with the ambitious goal of defeating the world's best human chess players. In 1996, Deep Blue made history by winning a game against Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, under tournament conditions. In 1997, Deep Blue upgraded its hardware and defeated Kasparov in a rematch, winning the match 3.5-2.5. This victory marked a significant milestone in artificial intelligence, demonstrating the potential of supercomputers to simulate human thought processes. Deep Blue's capabilities included evaluating 200 million chess positions per second and utilizing a custom-built architecture with 256 processors. After its victory, Deep Blue was retired and is now part of museum collections, symbolizing a pivotal moment in computing history.