What followed was one of the most compelling stories of our time. Both geniuses, they staked their reputation on the tournament. What he didn’t expect to confront was the lifelong dedication of another man, Deep Blue’s wunderkind inventor Doctor Hsu. An international celebrity and the undisputed master of his art, Kasparov came to America for freedom and glory. His opponent wasn’t a fellow Grandmaster but a faceless super-computer, Deep Blue, built by tech-giant IBM in a bid to raise its profile and its stock price. In 1997, Garry Kasparov, the world’s greatest chess player, arrived in New York City for the biggest match of his life. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM declined and retired Deep Blue. With hindsight the match was a huge advertisement and media hype for IBM rather than a "scientific" prove of machines supremacy versus humans in chess. Ne4, assuming h6 was not in Deep Blue's opening book. In the final decisive game 6, Kasparov played 7.h6 in the Caro-Kann knowing that it could provoke white to sacrifice a piece, which is very strong, but expected 7. Despite Kasparov's win of game 1 in a great style, he did not recover after the shock by Deep Blues' play in game 2, when Kasparov resigned a possibly drawn position after Deep Blue's 45. The rematch took place in New York City, New York, May 3-11, 1997, and to a big surprise for most spectators Deep Blue won the rematch by 3½-2½. The rematch between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, agreed after the Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1996 match won by Kasparov with 4–2.
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