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History Today: When Chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game to a computer
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...
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February 10, ‘Bridge of Spies’ prisoner exchange
On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...
On This Day, Feb. 10: Treaty of Paris formally ends French and Indian War
On Feb. 10, 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War ...
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It happened on a… February 10
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...
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Notable Births & Deaths on February 10 in Indian History
Explore significant events on February 10 in Indian history, including the birth and death anniversaries of politicians, ...
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What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion (under regular time constraints)?
IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...
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The AI Era: Why Contextualising and Applying Knowledge Matter More Than Having It
In the late 1990s, Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess grandmasters of all time, lost to IBM's Deep Blue. It was a defining moment that signalled the beginning of an era where machines could ...