Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

The chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov sat down with Business Insider for a lengthy discussion about advances in artificial intelligence since he first lost a match to the IBM chess machine Deep Blue in ...

More than a decade has passed since IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, international chess champion. Following Deep Blue's retirement, there has been a succession ...

Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous ...

This story originally published in December 2020. The cracks in Garry Kasparov’s armor began to show around move 13 of his first encounter with Deep Blue. The IBM supercomputer had been under ...

It was a memorable moment, as much for the Russian grandmaster’s hysteria in defeat as for being an apparent milestone in computing and the end of an era of human intellectual dominance. Now the ...

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. The quest to build a computer grandmaster has helped bring focus to ...

Mark Robert Anderson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

On May 11, 1997, a computer showed that it could outclass a human in that most human of pursuits: playing a game. The human was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and the computer was IBM’s Deep ...

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