#13 · The Machine Wins

IBM Man vs Machine, Philadelphia · 1996 · vs Garry Kasparov
You are Deep Blue.
IBM, 1985–1997 · The Machine · Meet the Legend

Philadelphia, February 1996. No computer has ever beaten a reigning world champion at classical time controls, and across the board sits Garry Kasparov. You are Deep Blue — IBM's machine, a hundred million positions a second — and you are about to make history that made the whole world look up from its newspaper.

Find the moves they actually played · 🟩 exact · 🟨 engine says just as good · five lives

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The legends

Paul MorphyAdolf AnderssenPhilipp MeitnerAkiba RubinsteinFrank MarshallAron NimzowitschEsteban CanalMNBobby FischerGarry KasparovDBMagnus Carlsen

Morphy to Magnus — the players you step in for.

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