The 1996 and 1997 matches, the machine's actual architecture, and why the lesson most people drew from it was the wrong way round.
On 11 May 1997 Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov 3½–2½ in a six-game match in New York. The machine had no learning component, no general reasoning and no capability outside chess, and IBM dismantled it shortly afterwards. What the match demonstrated was a fact about chess and about search, and it took nineteen more years to find out how narrow that fact was.
Two matches, and which one people mean
There were two, and conflating them is the commonest error.
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