Deep Blue was not the first computer program for chess, however.
The most well-known chess-playing computer is IBM’s Deep Blue, which faced off against Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a much-publicized series of matches in February 1996. Nearly 60 years ago, a new player entered the game–one powered not by human intelligence and dedication, but by lines of code on paper, written by computer scientist Alan Turing.
It’s a game so intricate that some spend their entire lives trying to master it. Chess is one of the oldest, and most revered games of strategy and analysis in the world.