Man vs. Machine: the second match between Russian chess champion Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue computer. The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by the Russian 4-2. The second, in May 1997 in New York City, was won by Deep Blue 3.5-2.5. It was the first time a computer defeated a world chess champion in a tournament-style match. In the second game of the New York tournament, Deep Blue at one point withdrew. Kasparov later tried to reconstruct Deep Blue’s final moves, but came to the disconcerting conclusion that Deep Blue had seen 20 moves ahead, a record (Kasparov himself admitted that his moment of glory was in a match in Holland in 1999, when he managed to see 15 moves ahead). Kasparov would never defeat Deep Blue again.
