However, the 'computing monster' was invisible to Kasparov. Kasparov's opponent was a colossus which was about two metres tall, weighed 700 kilograms, and could calculate 200 million positions per second. In 1996, the IBM team thought their programme was sophisticated enough to challenge the reigning World Champion Garry Kasparov to a match. In 1993, experts at the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) believed that a search depth of 14 half-moves could beat the best human players. One of the ideas was to significantly increase the speed of calculations by parallelising CPUs. In 1989, the team took the project to IBM, where development continued under the direction of Dr Chun Jen Tan.

Later, Jerry Brody and Joe Hoane joined them. He and Murray Campbell started the project at Carnegie Mellon University. Spiritus rector of the Deep Blue project was the programmer Feng-Hsiung Hsu.

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