“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...

Garry Kasparov was not afraid of a computer. When the world chess champion agreed to play a match against Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer designed to beat him, he was so confiden ...

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 ...

A team of programmers, backed by a powerful multinational and aided by a stable of chess grandmasters, joined forces to do what none could do by him-, her- or itself -- defeat the world's best chess ...

More than a decade has passed since IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, international chess champion. Following Deep Blue's retirement, there has been a succession ...

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 ...

This story originally published in December 2020. The cracks in Garry Kasparov’s armor began to show around move 13 of his first encounter with Deep Blue. The IBM supercomputer had been under ...

On May 11, 1997, a computer showed that it could outclass a human in that most human of pursuits: playing a game. The human was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and the computer was IBM’s Deep ...

In 1971, four photojournalists -- Kent Potter of United Press International, Henry Huet of the Associated Press, Larry ...