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Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The chess battle for humanity

This video presents the historic chess matches between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue from 1996 and 1997, which preceded the era of advanced chess engines like Alpha Zero and Stockfish. Timeline: ...
NPR

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...
PBS

Deep Blue vs. Kasparov

Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous ...
ExtremeTech

A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

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 have ...