Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov played against Deep Blue, and Kasparov was victorious. Even as AI had matured drastically since Turing's time, a human was still able to beat a machine.

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 ...

A computer had defeated the best chess-playing human in the world. Fifteen months later, "Deeper Blue"—Deep Blue's smarter, slicker, and better offspring—caused Kasparov to quit mid-match out ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

First things first: Apart from a fractured finger, the young human chess prodigy — reported by NBC News to be “one of the top 30 chess players in Moscow under the age of 9” — is ap ...

Humans, she says, don't like to admit a mistake unless they really have to. "And in those borderline cases when it's not obvious that you have to retreat, chess players tend to not like to retreat ...

The world’s greatest human chess player threw a tantrum and cried foul yesterday after being thrashed by a supercomputer. It took IBM’s Deep Blue just 19 moves to defeat world chess cha… ...

For humans, chess may take a lifetime to master. But Google DeepMind’s new artificial intelligence program, AlphaZero, can teach itself to conquer the board in a matter of hours.

Breaking that figure down, the bot has won 66,000 games, drawn 9,000, and lost 40,000. Before its lichess debut, the model was trained on 9 sets of 500,000 "positions" in real human chess games.