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Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov by brute force

IBM's 1997 machine examined up to 200 million chess positions a second to outsearch the reigning champion Deep Blue combined 480 custom chess chips with a general purpose computer, scoring positions with hand written rules rather than learning from games. It won the six game rematch 3.5 to 2.5, having lost the first game and prompted accusations of human help in the second. IBM retired the machine and declined a further match. It sits in Mondo's technology collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: IBM's 1997 machine examined up to 200 million chess positions a second to outsearch the reigning champion. The figure is taken from Computer History Museum, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a technology fact?: Yes. It sits on the Technology shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.