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CNN 20: IBM Computer Beats Kasparov, February 10, 1996

Aired February 10, 2000 - 9:41 a.m. ET

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER (voice-over): From the start, Gary Kasparov knew he could become the world's most memorable chess victim: a world champion losing to a computer in a match conducted under regulation time limits. On the other side, a computer operator representing a team of scientists from IBM who developed Deep Blue, a computer program capable of assessing up to 200 million possible moves in a single second, or 20 billion in three minutes, the average time taken before a move in standard match play. Kasparov's moves were sent by telephone wire from Philadelphia to a massive supercomputer at IBM's research center in New York, and it sent back it's counter-move.

Kasparov, attacking in his usual flamboyant fashion, left his king exposed and conceded the game after his 36th move. Kasparov, in the second game on Sunday, took six hours to back Deep Blue into a corner from which it could not escape.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He has found that the computer believed certain positions to be equal when in reality they turn out to be an advantage to the human.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: In 1989, Kasparov trounced Deep Blue's predecessor, Deep Thought, in two exhibition games. But Deep Blue computes 1,000 times faster. The computing knowledge gained can also be applied to other fields. So no matter who takes more games, the programmers say, humankind will win.

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