Machine beats man

In this week in 1996, the IBM super computer Deep Blue beats world chess champion Gary Kasparov. At some points of the game, Deep Blue was searching 100 million chess positions a second. "The depths of this computer's calculation gives it positional strength," Kasparov said.

My Great Predecessors

Garry Kasparov on "My Great Predecessors"

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Garry Kasparov may be the greatest chess player who ever lived. He tells Steve Paulson that he retired from the game to enter politics in his native Russia.

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