Global AI MapHISTORY / 1989
From Deep Thought to IBM’s chess project
IBM recruited members of the Deep Thought chess team in 1989. Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell and colleagues worked on search, evaluation and specialized chess hardware.
What happened next
Deep Blue won a game against Garry Kasparov in 1996, but lost that match. The team improved the system before the 1997 rematch. The two results should not be treated as the same event.