In 1997, the computer Deep Blue beat the world checkers champion.
Why it is true
IBM s Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1997. It was the first time a computer beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions. The computer analysed 200 million positions per second.
Source: IBM
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