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Do you play chess? In 1996, a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue was developed by IBM, a US computer company.

Develop

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The idea behind Deep Blue was to create a computer that was capable of beating a World Chess Champion.

Beat

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The Deep Blue team challenged the World Champion and Russian Grand Master, Gary Kasparov, to play a series of matches against the computer.

ChaLlenge

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In the first match, Kasparov beat the computer. However, in the second match in 1997, he lost by one game, much to the shock of the watching world.

Lose

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Since then, many people, including Kasparov, have accused IBM of cheating. They claim that the computer had human help during the games.

Accuse

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And some people said that IBM did not make them look very good when they refused a re-match with Kasparov.

They

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Instead, scientists at the company took the computer apart.

Take

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Later, one of the developers of Big Blue wrote a book saying he had been happy to build a new computer but that Kasparov wasn't interested.

Write

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It is possible that we will never know the full truth about what happened with Deep Blue.

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