The next year, Kasparov beat Karpov to become the youngest world champion in history. At 21, Kasparov played Anatoly Karpov for the world title, but the 49-game match ended indecisively. Kasparov, a chess prodigy from Azerbaijan, was a skillful chess player from childhood. This was the sixth and final game of their match, which Kasparov lost two games to one, with three draws. On May 11, 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by scientists at IBM.
