Deep Blue
Deep Blue is the chess-playing program, built by IBM, that defeated the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in 1997. Modern algorithms play much better chess, using much less computing power, but Deep Blue still holds the place in history of having first played superhuman chess relative to the best human player at the time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer).
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- Vingean uncertainty
You can’t predict the exact actions of an agent smarter than you—so is there anything you can say about them?
Actually, Kasparov won the 1996 match with a score of 4-2. This marked the first time a computer program won a single game against a reigning world champion, but Deep Blue didn’t win a whole match against Kasparov until their rematch in 1997. (Source: the wikipedia article you linked.)