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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-three years ago — long before “machine learning” was a term regularly belched up by luddites hiding behind dumb mid-level marketing buzzwords and printed-out Recode posts — IBM’s Deep Blue AI ...

On this day in 1996, then-World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov sat down to the sixth game in his match against Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer. Kasparov emerged the victor, winning three games, drawing ...

WAYLAND, Mass. (AP) _ 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 ...

It was a memorable moment, as much for the Russian grandmaster’s hysteria in defeat as for being an apparent milestone in computing and the end of an era of human intellectual dominance. Now the ...

Garry Kasparov recently battled his silicon competitor, Deep Junior, to a six game draw. The Wall Street Journal is carrying an opinion piece by Kasparov which may offer some insight to his reluctance ...

Garry Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of 22, while his famous matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue brought chess and artificial intelligence into the ...

Chess grandmaster and political activist Garry Kasparov will speak at CU Boulder at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8. The event will take place at Macky Auditorium and tickets are available now. Tickets will ...

At Austin’s SXSW festival, Garry Kasparov, who many consider the greatest chess player of all time, made an appearance to speak on ethics in AI and warn of security threats. Kasparov reigned as world ...