Five decades in the makingÄeep Blue's story began in 1985, when Hsu, then a Carnegie Mellon graduate student, started working on his dissertation project: ChipTest, a chess-playing machine. It took years for engineers and computer scientists to perfect the artificial intelligence program that would one day beat a world champion. In reality, though, scientists had been interested in programming a computer to play chess since the late 1940s, according to an article on IBM's blog about Deep Blue. Kasparov accused the IBM team of cheating its way to victory. ![]() A research team led by IEEE Senior Member Murray Campbell and Feng-hsiung Hsu developed the machine. IBM's Deep Blue made history in 1997 when it became the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion. But Beth Harmon-the fictional prodigy portrayed by Anya Taylor-Joy-never faces a supercomputer the way real-life world champion Garry Kasparov did. ![]() THE INSTITUTE Chess is making a comeback thanks to The Queen's Gambit, a popular Netflix miniseries about a prodigy's journey to becoming the world's greatest player.
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