Deep Blue

Development of Deep Blue began in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University, when doctoral student Feng-hsiung Hsu started building a chess playing machine called ChipTest. Thomas Anantharaman and Murray Campbell joined the project. ChipTest won the North American Computer Chess Championship in 1987, and in 1988 the team followed it with a successor, Deep Thought, named after the computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After Deep Thought lost a two game match to world champion Garry Kasparov in 1989, Hsu and Campbell joined IBM Research that fall to continue their quest to build a machine…