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A Tidbit For Chess Readers :)
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PEGASUS
(moderator) 10 Feb 2007 10:46am
On February 10...
On this day in 1996 the chess-playing IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion grandmaster Gary Kasparov in the first of a six-game series. Kasparov went on to win the series, but in a rematch in 1997, Kasparov resigned the sixth game, thereby allowing Deep Blue to win the series. Not only was it the first time a reigning grandmaster human champion lost to a computer, but it was also the first time Kasparov had ever lost a multi-game match.
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