(Photo credit: Stan Honda / AFP / Getty Images). Kasparov reflects on his loss to Deep Blue in their final game. Kasparov wears a look of dejection after being swiftly defeated by Deep Blue in their final game. Kasparov holds his head in his hands as IBM scientist Joseph Hoane makes a move for Deep Blue at the start of the final game. Kasparov considers his next move early in Game 5. The IBM Deep Blue team pose for a photo after Game 4 ended in a draw, leaving the score still tied. Spectators watch a live broadcast of Game 3. Kasparov ponders a move in Game 3, after winning the first game and losing the second. IBM scientist Murray Campbell makes a move for Deep Blue in Game 2. Kasparov moves his first piece, a knight, in the first game of the rematch. Kasparov contemplates his opening move in Game 1 of the rematch. Feng-hsiung Hsu prepares Deep Blue before Kasparov makes his opening move in the first of six games. Kasparov lifts a white hat which signifies that he will have the first move in his rematch with Deep Blue. Kasparov poses for a photo while training for his rematch against Deep Blue. Chung-Jen Tan applauds Garry Kasparov after his victory over the supercomputer in the six-game match. Deep Blue at IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York. Garry Kasparov takes a pawn in the opening moves of a six-game match against Deep Blue, operated by designer Feng-hsiung Hsu. Later analysis tended to play down Kasparov’s loss as a result of uncharacteristically bad play on Kasparov’s part, and play down the intellectual value of chess as a game which can be defeated by brute force. Deep Blue’s win was seen as very symbolically significant, a sign that artificial intelligence was catching up to human intelligence, and could defeat one of humanity’s great intellectual champions. Kasparov rebounded in the following five games, fighting the computer to two draws and three victories, winning the overall match. This particular game was the first in a match of six held in Philadelphia. Today you can buy a chess engine for your laptop that will beat Deep Blue quite easily”. I am not writing any love letters to IBM, but my respect for the Deep Blue team went up, and my opinion of my own play, and Deep Blue’s play, went down. Stated Kasparov: “While writing the book I did a lot of research – analysing the games with modern computers, also soul-searching – and I changed my conclusions. In December 2016, discussing the match in a podcast with neuroscientist Sam Harris, Kasparov advised of a change of heart in his views of this match. Immediately after the match, Kasparov was bitter. So when Kasparov, one of the greatest chess players of all time, lost to a computer in front of a global audience, people began to wonder whether it was just a matter of time before machines surpassed humans in other aspects of life. He had been beating chess-playing computers since the ‘80s (he’ll remind you that he defeated an earlier version of Deep Blue in 1996) and was considered nearly unbeatable. He was the Michael Jordan of chess at the time. But going into the match, Kasparov was confident. His opponent was the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, a machine that was capable of imagining an average of 200,000,000 positions per second. He raises his arms, astounded that he was beaten by a machine. Finally, Kasparov makes his move, stands up and races away from the board. He’s fidgeting in between turns and shaking his head in disbelief as he waits for his opponent to put the final touches on an inevitable victory. It’s 1997, and Garry Kasparov is hunched over a chessboard, visibly frustrated.