On This Day, Feb. 10: IBM's Deep Blue computer beats Garry Kasparov in chess

On Feb. 10, 1996, a computer -- IBM's Deep Blue -- won a game against world champion chess player Garry Kasparov.
Gizmodo

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: the Chess Match That Changed Our Minds About AI

“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 ...
FiveThirtyEight

Chess’s New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm

Chess is an antique, about 1,500 years old, according to most historians. As a result, its evolution seems essentially complete, a hoary game now largely trudging along. That’s not to say that there ...

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

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

Google's AI became the world's best chess player in just four hours

Four hours is all it took for Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence program to learn everything there was to know about chess, The Telegraph reported Wednesday. DeepMind's AlphaZero program, which ...