Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer built for chess by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu, the first computer to win a game, and then a match, against a reigning world chess champion under regular time controls. Development began in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University under the name ChipTest, moving to IBM and being renamed first Deep Thought and then, in 1989, Deep Blue; in 1997 it defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game rematch, a result considered a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence.
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SignificanceThe first computer to win a game, and then a match, against a reigning world chess champion under regular time controls 1 Sources
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It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a reigning world champion under regular time controls.
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