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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, ...

NEW YORK - World number one chess player Garry Kasparov crushed the champion computer program Deep Junior in his trademark aggressive style Sunday in the first game of their six-game "Man vs Machine" ...

NEW YORK -- World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated computerized challenger Deep Junior on Sunday in the first of six games pitting human wit against computer logic. Kasparov forced the ...

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 ...

It took just 19 moves. Today marks the 20th anniversary of an epic chess match between IBM's computer Deep Blue and world chess champion Garry Kasparov. On May 11, 1997, the undefeated Kasparov faced ...

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 ...

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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 ...

World chess champion Garry Kasparov and computer opponent Deep Junior tied the fifth game of their Man vs. Machine series Wednesday, playing just 19 moves. The six-game series remains tied at 2 1/2 ...

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov announced this week that he will play his first public match against a computer since his stunning loss to IBM's Deep Blue machine five years ago. The match ...