IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue was eclipsed by the neural-net revolution. Now, 25 years on, the machine may get the last laugh. In May 11, 1997, Garry Kasparov fidgeted in his plush ...
Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...
MANAMA, Bahrain--Deep Fritz, the German-developed chess computer, played a nearly flawless game to outwit world champion Vladimir Kramnik in just 34 moves Tuesday and pull even in the $1 million eight ...
Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996, against ...
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. As a child, Hassabis became a chess champion, competing in international tournaments. Hassabis credits chess with leading to an interest in programming ...
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov announced this week that he will play his first public match against a computer since his stunning loss to IBM's Deep Blue machine five years ago. The match ...