In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War, with France ceding Quebec to Great Britain. Many such truces have held the title ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

On this day in 1996, then-World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov sat down to the sixth game in his match against Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer. Kasparov emerged the victor, winning three games, drawing ...

This video presents the historic chess matches between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue from 1996 and 1997, which preceded the era of advanced chess engines like Alpha Zero and Stockfish. Timeline: ...

May 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1858, Minnesota joined the United States as the 32nd state. In 1862, the Confederate navy destroyed its iron-clad vessel Merrimac to prevent it from falling ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 37 moves. The victory marked a turning point for humans and machines. On February 10, 1996, the then chess world ...

Hadley Fraser and Kenneth Lee in “The Machine” at the Park Avenue Armory (all images by Stephanie Berger and courtesy Park Avenue Armory) The Machine opened at the Manchester International Festival ...

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 ...

Three notebooks of photocopied press clippings relating to the May, 1997, chess rematch between chess champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue computer and its programmers. Kasparov first played ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World chess champion Garry Kasparov plays against IBM's Deep Blue computer at the Association for Computing Chess Challenge on ...