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In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
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Philadelphia
Largest city in Pennsylvania, United States
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is the sixth-most populous city in the United States with a population of 1.6 million at the 2020 census, while the Philadelphia metropolitan area with 6.33 million…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1963)
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1984 until his…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Deep Blue (chess computer)
Chess-playing computer made by IBM
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Supercomputer
Type of extremely powerful computer
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Chess
Strategy board game
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