“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 ...

A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about artificial intelligence. By Dylan Loeb McClain It is rare that chess grabs ...

World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and the team behind chess computer Deep Fritz 7 would be happy to stage a replay of the human vs. computer chess match that ended in a 4-4 tie Saturday in Bahrain ...

If Russian novelist and Crimean War veteran Leo Tolstoy is right about war being a chess match, we may not have to worry so much about fighting AI-led robots on a futuristic, “Terminator” like ...

On the surface, the question “Why can’t computers play chess?” is ridiculous. Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov back in 1997. Deep Blue, the IBM Computer, won 2 games, Kasparov, the reigning world ...