February 10: Deep Blue defeated Kasparov (1996)

IBM Deep Blue

IBM's chess computer Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in the first game of the six-game match. This was the first event that a computer won a chess game against a reigning world chess champion under regular time controls. Overall, Kasparov won the match over Deep Blue with 4-2, however, he lost to the next version of Deep Blue in the re-match in the following year. The project of developing a chess computer was started at Carnegie Mellon University by Feng-hsiung Hsu and Hsu kept working on the project after hired by IBM. Since his joining IBM in 1989, Hsu had worked for the project until Deep Blue was dismantled by the company. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating with human intervention during the game. IBM denied. However, this event is a recorded moment of the evolution of the computer capability.