On This Day:  February 10

1996 -- The com­put­er Deep Blue wins a chess game against world cham­pi­on Gar­ry Kas­parov. The ma­chine is quick­ly dis­man­tled to pre­serve its pri­ma­cy be­fore a re­match can be held, prov­ing an­oth­er ad­van­tage over any hu­man op­po­nent.

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