Sport-On this day: Born April 13, 1963; Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov

FILE PHOTO: Born on April 13, 1963: Garry Kasparov, Russian Chess Grandmaster World chess champion Garry Kasparov plays his first move of game two of the match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. REUTERS/Mike Segar

(Reuters) - Garry Kasparov hated losing but in defeat, to an "alien opponent" incapable of fear or the faintest flicker of emotion, the youngest of chess champions and greatest of grandmasters made history.

The Russian's 1996 and 1997 man vs machine matches against Deep Blue, an IBM RS/6000 supercomputer capable of crunching 200 million positions in the space of a second, wrote headlines around the world.