The match of Garry Kasparov vs Deep Blue is now firmly cemented in chess lore. Computer chess has always fascinated us, used as a litmus test of artificial intelligence. Google's AlphaZero made world headlines in 2017 when it taught itself how to play chess in just four hours, and then beat the strong Stockfish engine. The late 90s, however, were when it first started getting serious and a chess computer was getting close to defeating a top-level human player. The first Kasparov vs Deep Blue mat