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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In 1998, when the Blue Devils lost to eventual national champion Kentucky.

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If the machine works as researchers think it will, chess masters ought to look out -- Blue Gene would be 1, 000 times more powerful than the Deep Blue machine that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

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