Kasparov

In two moves, Kasparov will check the challenger.

Deep Blue beat chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov in 1997.

Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassili Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spasski, Viktor Korchnoi, Anatoli Karpov and Gari Kasparov are extraordinary and very famous chess players, all of them from Russia.

In 1985, Garry Kasparov played a simultaneous against 32 computers and won all of the games.

In 1996, Garry Kasparov played a 6-game match against Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer, and won 4 x 2.

In 1997, in a second match (the first one had occurred the year before), IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Grand Master Garry Kasparov by 3.5 X 2.5.

That was the first time, in the history of chess, that a machine (Deep Blue) defeated a Grand Master (Garry Kasparov).

Deep Blue, a supercomputer created by IBM in the nineties to play chess at the highest level, was retired (destroyed?) after the second match, played in 1997, against Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Much controversy still exists around these historical matches.

I also learned to admire these chess players: Smyslov, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Keres, and Carlsen. There are, therefore, twelve great chess players of my choice.

In six years, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov played against each other five matches (144 games, 5540 moves) for the world chess championship.