Kasparov (left) shakes hands with IBM’s Feng-hsiung Hsu, Deep Blue’s principal designer. Photo: Courtesy of IBM In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down at a chess board in a Manhattan ...

Gary Kasparov in a chess rematch against Deep Blue, an IBM computer. Kasparov, playing black, used a standard defense known as the “Caro-Kann,” forcing white to sacrifice a piece.

Fans watch Garry Kasparov during his 1997 rematch against Deep Blue, IBM's chess-playing computer. ... the chess showdown between Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer captured the world’s attention.

Beyond the chessboard, "Rematch" unravels the intense, true-life psychological thriller of Garry Kasparov's 1997 defeat by ...

Twenty years ago IBM’s Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match. The supercomputer’s success against an ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers ...

In the spring of 1997, a supercomputer built by a team of IBM scientists stunned the world by beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov, considered one of the greatest chess players in history. Deep Blue ...

So it’s not surprising that eight years after IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in what was billed as the ultimate test of man vs. machine, experts still ...

The IBM Deep Blue chess computer team poses in May, 1997. From left: Chung-Jen Tan (team manager), Gerry Brody, Joel Benjamin, Murray Campbell, Joseph Hoane and Feng-hsiung Hsu ...

Friday, May 11, marked the 15-year anniversary of IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue's victory over a reigning world chess champion.Wikipedia notes: "On May 11, 1997, the machine won the ...

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. In Chess, Qualified Respect for Computers - Los Angeles Times ...