“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 ...

It was on this week in history that a world-class champion chess player lost a match to a computer in a tournament. On May 11, 1997 Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigned after 19 moves in a game ...

In 1996, a computer -- IBM's Deep Blue -- won a game against world champion chess player Garry Kasparov. But Kasparov won ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

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 ...