From Deep Blue to modern AI, how chess exposed the shift from brute-force machines to learning systems, and why it matters AI ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess ...

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess. The world panicked about machines replacing human expertise. What happened next? Kasparov pioneered ‘advanced chess ...