'Deep Blue' was the first computer to beat a world Chess champion. It defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
There may well have been earlier computers that beat humans who did not play very well.
"Deep Blue" who defeated Gary Kasparov .
Deep Blue. It is a chess-playing computer developed by the International Business Machines (IBM). On May 11, 1997, Deep Blue won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. The Champion accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM refused and dismantled Deep Blue. But Kasparov defeated a previous version of Deep Blue in 1996.
Jose Raul Capablanca was known as the human chess machine. His endgame play was considered flawless.
'Deep Blue' defeated chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in May of 1997 .
Deep blue specialized in being the first computer to defeat a chess champion at chess when it defeated grand master Gary Kasparov.
It is true that the computer cannot think but the people who programmed the computer can. So if you take a very powerful computer ( like Deep Blue) and program it very clever then the computer will be very good at chess and can even defeat a world champion.
Chess World Champion
The brilliant Paul Morphy was both. He was recognized as the world chess champion but before there was a formal champion.
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Boris Spassky of the USSR.
The current world chess champion is Viswanathan Anand
The answer is Garry Kasparov.
Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov .
The women's chess champion for 2008 was Alexandra Kosteniuk.