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A Six-Game Chess Tournament Is Being Held In Philadelphia

NPR
Published February 12, 1996 at 12:00 AM EST

between World chess champion Garry Kasparov and a supercomputer by the name of Big Blue. Big Blue took the first round last Saturday, but Kasparov came back to take the second match yesterday.

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