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According to the source, the collective chess-power this first Deep Blue incarnation had at its disposal was enough to analyze between 3 and 5 million positions per second." You may like 1995: Losing versus a game running on a Pentium 90 Millions of moves per second sounds like a lot of brute force to crack a chess nut. IBM quotes the chess champ as grudgingly admitting, "I have to pay tribute, the computer is far stronger than anybody expected." The 1997 Deep Blue build was quite a significantly beefed-up build compared to the prototype specs we sketched out earlier. [FLOPS]" Looking back at Deep Blue from the AI era In 1997, we perhaps saw the first real signs of machines being able to rival the power of human thought and intuition – admittedly using a very different technique for success. Fast-forward to the AI era, and as we approach the end of 2025, we have to comment on the fact that the AI-LLM industry is still pretty bad at chess."