Deep Blue – Harvard Staff Art Show

A painting depicting the audience reaction to a live chess match in which chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov is playing the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. A row of fans watch the game live, while two TV screens in the foreground display a bird's eye view of the live chess board and Garry, with his head in his hands, contemplating his next move.

by Sophia Wedeen

Gouache painting

In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov is defeated by the IBM chess supercomputer, Deep Blue. The drama and agony of this high-stakes moment in history occasionally comes to mind when I’m on my phone blundering away a chess game.

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