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In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has acquired screen rights to the Matthew Charman play The Machine for Disney-based Mandeville producing partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. Charman will adapt his play about ...

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov told delegates at data visualisation software supplier Tableau’s 2018 European user conference in London that they still have a role to play in the era of ...

The deciding game Friday between chess legend Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Junior ended in a draw. The result meant that the six-game series pitting man against machine ended in a 3-3 deadlock.

Gary Kasparov flummoxed his computer opponent in the opening game of the latest chess match between man and machine. The revenge will be sweet for the former world chess champion whose reign was ...

After five years of licking his Deep Blue wounds, Garry Kasparov will face a widely admired--and feared--computer chess master. The match, to be held Oct. 1-13 in Jerusalem, will pit Kasparov against ...