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ChipTest Creation
A Carnegie Mellon grad student named Feng-hsiung Hsu joined forces with Murray Campbell, a computer scientist who also loved playing chess. Together, they created ChipTest, an advanced chess-playing machine. -
ChipTest's Design
ChipTest ran on the VLSI-Technology move generator chip called "Sun-3/160" workstation that was developed by Hsu. It was able to search 50,000 chess moves per second. -
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IBM Deep Blue: AI vs. Chessmaster
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ChipTest first match
The team entered the ChipTest into the North American Computer Chess Championship. The team entered the machine before it was fully tested. Although, it lost the first two matches. It finished with an even score. -
ChipTests' Overhaul
ChipTest got upgraded to ChipTest-M. It got a software and hardware update. They upgraded the hardware to the Sun-4 workstation. It fixed many bugs and was able to run a lot faster than the original ChipTest. Now, it was able to search 500,000 moves per second. -
ChipTest-M Match
The machine was entered into the North American Computer Chess Championship, where it won with a shocking 4-0 win. -
American Open
The ChipTest-M was invited to the American Open. The team chose not to enter after an objection by the HiTech development team. Both machines were running on the same code. The two teams were rivals. -
Deep Thought Build Team
Computer science doctoral students Feng-hsiung Hsu and Thomas Anantharaman. Murray Campbell, former co-developer of HiTech as well as Andreas Nowatzyk, Mike Browne and Peter Jansen. They began work on the third version of the chess computer. -
Deep Thought 0.02
Version 0.02 was able to search 720,000 moves per second after it got upgraded with two new VLSI processors. -
Deep Blue: The Machine
Hsu and Campbell were hired by IBM Research. -
Deep Blue: The Team
After receiving his doctorate, Hsu and Murray Campbell joined IBM Research. Their colleague Thomas Anantharaman briefly joined them at IBM before leaving for the finance industry and being replaced by programmer Arthur Joseph Hoane.. Jerry Brody, a long-time employee of IBM Research, subsequently joined the team in 1990. -
Chess Grandmaster: Garri Kimovich Kasparov
Garry Kasparov, born on April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a chess legend. He became the youngest world chess champion at 22 in 1985. -
Naming Deep Blue
The IBM PR team held a contest to name the chess machine. The winning name was "Deep Blue", submitted by Peter Fitzhugh Brown, -
Deep Thought 0.02 Match
Deep Thought played in the World Computer Chess Championship. Where it won with a perfect score of 5 -0. -
Kasparov versus Deep Thought
Deep Thought and Garry Kasparov battled it out in a two-game match up on Oct. 22, 1989. The match was held at the New York Academy of Art. Kasparov won both matches. -
First Match Up
Garry Kasparov and the Deep Blue team battled it out. Kasparov easily won the match 4-2. -
Second Match Up
After, Kasparov and the team of Deep Blue had agreed to a rematch. The team upgraded the machine. Kasparov sadly gave in after six rounds of chess. Allowing the machine to take the victory.