I Was There When: AI mastered chess

Commentator 2: Deep Blue! Kasparov, after the move C4, has resigned! Jennifer: I'm Jennifer Strong, and this is I Was There When--an oral history project featuring the stories of breakthroughs and watershed moments in AI and computing, as told by those who witnessed them. This episode, we meet the man on the other side of that chess board, Garry Kasparov. Garry Kasparov: It was inevitable that something described on the cover of Newsweek as the brain's last stand and in books as big as the moon landing would involve a lot of mythology. I admit that I was caught up in a lot of this hype myself.