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1997

Kasparov loses to Deep Blue

1997

Chess world champion Garry Kasparov lost a full six-game match to IBM's Deep Blue, two to one with three draws. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world champion at classical time controls. Kasparov, shaken, accused IBM of cheating. A symbolic threshold in the relationship between humans and machines had been crossed in Manhattan.