May 11 marks Deep Blue's historic chess win over Kasparov and key events shaping technology, politics, culture, and global ...

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, ...

LISBON, Portugal — Garry Kasparov knew as early as 1997 — 20 years ago — that humans were doomed, he says. It was in May of that year, in New York, that he lost a six-game chess match to IBM's Deep ...

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 ...

"Deep Blue," the chess-playing computer, defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match. on May 11, 1997.

Humanity is living through the transformation that Kasparov first confronted across a chessboard nearly three decades ago.

This story originally published in December 2020. The cracks in Garry Kasparov’s armor began to show around move 13 of his first encounter with Deep Blue. The IBM supercomputer had been under ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago from February 10-17, 1996, in Philadelphia, USA, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue 4-2 in a six-game match. The following year, in May 1997, the ...

On a cool Sunday morning in May 1997, reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat in defeat. It had been a highly publicized, weeklong affair, and after six controversial matches — three of which ...