IMB's Deep Blue Beat Kasparov So Badly It Got Called THIS...

In 1997, Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player alive, lost to IBM's Deep Blue. Then he accused the computer of having human help. Was he right? Kasparov had been world champion for twelve years, and a year earlier he had beaten Deep Blue four games to two. For the rematch in New York, IBM rebuilt the machine: two tall cabinets packed with 480 custom chess chips, able to examine 200 million positions every second. But during the match, Deep Blue started making moves that didn't look like a computer's. A strange rook move that seemed to do nothing. A quiet, patient bishop move instead of a greedy grab for material. Rattled, Kasparov resigned a game he could have drawn, demanded the machine's logs, and accused IBM of secretly using a human grandmaster. IBM refused his request for a rematch and dismantled Deep Blue. For years, the question hung over the most famous match in computer history: was someone hiding behind the machine? The real answer came years later, and it was stranger than anyone expected.