Ten years ago today, a computer beat the world chess champion in a six-game match. Since then, human champs have played three more matches against machines, scoring two draws and a loss. Grandmasters ...
Garry Kasparov bests Deep Blue, the IBM computer programmed to play chess, in match play in February 1996. A year later, an updated version of Deep Blue would beat the world champion. Ten years ago ...
Next month, there's a world chess championship match in New York City, and the two competitors, the assembled grandmasters, the budding chess prodigies, the older chess fans — everyone paying ...