Mr. Kasparov, the world chess champion and head of the Moscow region branch of the Democratic Party of Russia, is a contributing editor of the Journal.

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The most famous head to head battle was in 1997 when a computer called Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

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