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Kasparov loses to Deep Blue: Tech Time Machine

Most of us find a computer chess game hard enough to beat, but not so if you have the rather grandiose title of chess grandmaster.

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Watch this: Tech Time Machine: 11 May

Most of us find a computer chess game hard enough to beat, but not so if you have the rather grandiose title of chess grandmaster.

This is even more so if your name is Gary Kasparov. Today, though, marks the anniversary of his unseating. Not by a human, mind you, but by a behemoth of the tech world, and one of its supercomputers.