In May 1997, Garry Kasparov, the reigning world chess champion, sat across from a black metal cabinet in a New York room filled with cameras. After the game officially ended, Kasparov rose from his seat with a stern expression, having been defeated by the machine. On May 11, 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM, defeated Kasparov 3.5 to 2.5, becoming the first computer to beat a reigning world chess champion in a classical match. Despite Kasparov's accusations of cheating and his demand for a rematch, IBM refused a third match and permanently disassembled Deep Blue. The two components of the machine are now on display at the Smithsonian Institution and the Computer History Museum. Deep Blue was based on an RS/6000 SP architecture, spread over two massive cabinets. It included a dozen general-purpose processors and 480 specialized chips, allowing it to analyze up to 200 million positions per second, for a raw power approaching 11.38 billion floating-point operations per second. This was a staggering achievement for the time, although modern smartphones now exceed these performances. Kasparov accused the engineering team of human intervention behind certain moves, considering them too human for a machine. He requested access to the logs of all games to verify his suspicions, but IBM only provided those of the fifth game. According to Feng-hsiung Hsu, one of the historical engineers of the project, this retention of information fueled a controversy that, even today, has never been completely extinguished. IBM decided to disassemble Deep Blue shortly after the tournament, as the company had achieved its communication goal and had nothing to gain by confirming a victory considered by many as lucky. The 1.4 tons of metal and silicon that had defeated Kasparov were stripped down and divided into two distinct physical blocks. The influence of Deep Blue has not disappeared, as its demonstration of massive parallel computing opened the way to modern computer architectures used in data centers, the training of artificial intelligence models, and supercomputers used for climate modeling. However, the power of Deep Blue seems almost laughable compared to today's chess engines such as Stockfish or AlphaZero, which rely on machine learning rather than sheer computational power. IBM's decision to stop the project at its peak transformed Deep Blue into an untouchable myth. This strategy has inspired many current technology actors, where the announcement of an achievement sometimes counts more than its long-term replication. By disassembling Deep Blue, IBM created an indestructible legend, protected from any future defeat.