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, ...

More than a decade has passed since IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, international chess champion. Following Deep Blue's retirement, there has been a succession ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

On May 11, 1997, a computer showed that it could outclass a human in that most human of pursuits: playing a game. The human was World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, and the computer was IBM’s Deep ...

River Oaks Chamber Orchestra will battle one of its own this weekend in a rather innovative game of chess. Composer Maxime Goulet has adapted the legendary 1997 match, in which IBM’s Deep Blue ...

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 ...

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It was on this week in history that a world-class champion chess player lost a match to a computer in a tournament. On May 11, 1997 Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigned after 19 moves in a game ...