IBM’s ‘Deep Blue’ computer demolishes world chess champion Garry Kasparov 20 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 11 1997)


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(Sunday, May 11, 1997, at about 4:00 p.m. EDT) — In brisk and brutal fashion, the IBM computer “Deep Blue” unseated humanity, at least temporarily, as the finest chess playing entity on the planet today in New York City when Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, resigned the sixth and final game of the match after just 19 moves, saying, “I lost my fighting spirit.”