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Humanity’s Last King: In May 1997, the world’s greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, faced IBM’s Deep Blue in a six-game rematch in New York City. For nearly two weeks, the champion and the machine traded victories and draws, and by the start of the final game on May 11 the match was tied 2½–2½. What followed was history. Kasparov chose the Caro-Kann Defense, but within 19 moves his position collapsed. He tipped his king and walked out in frustration. For the first time in history, a computer had defeated the reigning World Chess Champion in a regulated match. The result sent shockwaves around the globe, marking a turning point not only in chess but in human history, the moment artificial intelligence proved it could outthink even the best human mind in the game once seen as the ultimate test of intellect.