On this day - 3 May
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Kasparov beaten by computer
Garry Kasparov is a chess grandmaster and former world chess champion. On May 3rd 1997 he played against supercomputer Deep Blue. Deep Blue had been developed by IBM. The match formed part of a six match series between the pair. Deep Blue won the match and this marked the first occasion where a world champion had been beaten by a computer under tournament conditions. A documentary movie of the match was made called "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine".
The first match of the series had been in Philadelphia in February 1997 and was won by Kasparov.
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