World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

Perhaps in chess they can. During the Kasparov-Deep Blue second match there was some serious talk of Blue playing moves it wasn’t programmed to play. The computer out-manoeuvred Kasparov ...

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The first few moves are of great importance in chess. The aim is to pose problems ... Back then, the IBM mainframe computer Deep Blue beat the then-world champion Gary Kasparov.