IBM's Deep Blue makes history by defeating reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match.27 This is the first time a computer chess-playing program beat a world champion under standard chess tournament time controls. Deep Blue's victory demonstrated that computers can outperform humans in highly strategic games, long considered a hallmark of human intelligence. The machine's ability to calculate millions of moves per second, combined with advancements in game theory and heuristics, enable it to outmaneuver Kasparov, solidifying Deep Blue's place in AI history.
The event also sparked debates about the future relationship between human cognition and AI, influencing subsequent AI research in other fields such as natural language processing and autonomous systems.