It pitted grandmaster Garry Kasparov who'd been world champion since 1985 against Deep Blue, a computer built by IBM, to show off artificial intelligence.

自1985年以来一直是国际象棋世界冠军的加里·卡斯帕罗夫大师与IBM制造的计算机“深蓝”展开了一场展示人工智能的比赛。