IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. A historic moment—one that marked the first time a machine ...

Turing’s foremost question was: Can machines think? Perhaps in chess they can. During the Kasparov-Deep Blue second match there was some serious talk of Blue playing moves it wasn’t programmed ...

Now, Barthelmey has taken things one step further by publishing a new paper in the journal Physical Review E that treats ...

This week marks 29 years since an epic man versus machine battle. It's when IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat Garry ...

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On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...