Garry Kasparov resigned the final game of his chess match against IBM's Deep Blue on May 11, 1997, at the Equitable Center in Manhattan.
Sources
- What the history of AI tells us about its future (technologyreview.com)
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-11/deep-blue-defeats-garry-kasparov-in-chess-match (history.com)
- https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue (ibm.com)
- https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/PREVIOUS/Grad/Papers/db.html (webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca)
More in History
- The International Philatelic Federation was formed in 1926.
- Since 1998, archaeozoologist Joris Peters of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich has examined more than 100,000 bone fragments from Göbekli Tepe, of which gazelle bones account for more than 60 percent of the total.
- The Battle of Jaktorów was a partisan battle.
- Central American cultures showed astronomical interest in early history.
- In July, Bob Ballard's team used remotely operated vehicles aboard the E/V Nautilus to survey 13 World War II wrecks in Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands, including the Japanese destroyer Teruzuki and the shattered bow of the U.S.S. New Orleans.
- In the nomenclature used by the Navy of the Second Polish Republic, ORP Czapla was referred to as a mine layer.