FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...

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

Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...

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

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Once a concept of ancient myths and science fiction, AI is now reshaping industries and economies. From Turing’s theories to ...

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM ...

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