IBM Deep Blue vs. Kasparov
These 24 challenges come from the historic 1996 match and 1997 rematch between World Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer. These challenges are richly annotated with extensive natural language to allow beginners and novices to follow world class chess. Experienced players will want this collector's item for their mentor library.
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This position occurred in the sixth game of the 1996 match between IBM's Deep Blue program and PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov. Five moves have been played, and it is your task to find a good way to develop White's pieces.
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This position continues game 6 of the 1996 match. White (Kasparov) is to make his 28th move. Ahead by one game in the match, Garry needs only a draw to win the match. Though both sides have equal material, White has a significant positional advantage....
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This position occurred in the sixth game of the 1996 match between IBM's Deep Blue program and PCA World Champion Gary Kasparov with Kasparov leading the match 3-2. Kasparov, playing with the White pieces, has just transferred his bishop to a nice post...
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This position could have occurred in the sixth game of the 1996 match between IBM's Deep Blue program and PCA World Champion Gary Kasparov. Kasparov was leading the match 3-2 and only needed a draw to secure victory. Kasparov, playing with the White pieces,...
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This position occurred in the second game of the 1996 match between IBM's Deep Blue program and PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov. After Kasparov suffered a shocking loss in game 1, he was determined to even the score with the White pieces. Kasparov...
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This is the conclusion of Game 2. A previous challenge showed Kasparov playing White making positional gains in the middlegame. After more than 40 moves later White has taken advantage of his dominance on the light squares combined with Black's rather...
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Kasparov had just managed to even the score by winning a long ending in game two. In game three, Deep Blue repeated it's choice of the Alapin Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.c3), but this time, Kasparov was well prepared and appeared to emerge with an early advantage...
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This is an extremely interesting position from the point of view of the gamesmanship that Garry demonstrates. First though, some background: In this position from game 4, it is White (Kasparov) to move on the 42nd move of the game. Deep Blue played...
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Deep Blue (White) opened this fifth game with a variation called the "Scotch Four Knights". This is a strategically simple system that leads to an open position (one without many pawns in the center). The Deep Blue team thus chose an opening (the opening...
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Ever since the 1996 match between Deep Blue and PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov, a lot of expectations and speculations arose about the ongoing improvements of computer chess. But in game one of the 1997 rematch, Kasparov clearly outplayed the computer...
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It is a rare occurrence when a world champion resigns a game in a drawn position. Extensive analysis by strong computer programs and thousands of strong players around the world established the fact that Kasparov had a one-time chance to draw game 2 after...
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This position occurred after Deep Blue, playing with the Black pieces, had just unleashed the sharp 28...f5. After a slow opening, Deep Blue had made a few slow and weakening moves, but due to the closed nature of the position, Deep Blue got itself back...
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This is the conclusion of Game 1 of the 1997 rematch. Deep Blue has just played pawn captures pawn on g4, and it is now Garry's turn to play his 41st move.
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This position is near the end of Game 3 of the 1997 Rematch. Deep Blue playing Black is one pawn ahead, but Garry has nice outposts for his bishop and knight, and neither of Black's bishops have any scope to speak of.
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This position occurred in game 4 of the 1997 rematch. Deep Blue just played his rook to h7 in order to protect the attacked pawn on h4. We will now deviate from the game continuation in order to show how Kasparov could have tried to win this endgame.
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After Deep Blue, playing with the Black pieces, seemed to enjoy a little advantage in the middlegame, Kasparov managed to gain a slight initiative after Deep Blue traded queens on the wrong square (g6). This position occurred after Kasparov's 40th move....
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In this final game of the 1997 match, a nerve-racked Kasparov blundered in the opening. Deep Blue sacrificed a piece and continued the attack in convincing style. Kasparov later opted to give up the queen for a rook and bishop, which gave him a total...