Kasparov (left) shakes hands with IBM’s Feng-hsiung Hsu, Deep Blue’s principal designer. Photo: Courtesy of IBM In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down at a chess board in a Manhattan skyscraper.

For that was the day world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off in Game One of a six-game rematch against IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. Kasparov had defeated Deep Blue handily in 1996.

Garry Kasparov recently battled his silicon competitor ... towards IBM for dismantling his competitor after the loss to Deep Blue.</p><blockquote><p>In 1997, when IBM terminated the Deep Blue ...

Christian Cooke speaks to RadioTimes.com about portraying the chess legend – and the story's clear parallels with today.

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 into the hands of advancing Union forces ...

Christian Cooke plays Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player of all-time, in the new Disney+ series Rematch.

Chess, for instance. World champion Garry Kasparov's defeat at the hands of IBM's Deep Blue computer in 1997 was a milestone in the story of artificial intelligence. But did the machine merely ...

"He was very fit, he ran a lot, he did a lot of push-ups. Approaching a match, he was very strict about his diet and his ...

The six-part series follows the Russian world chess champion Garry Kasparov (Christian Cooke) as he takes on a match against the IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue in a human vs machine battle.

In 1997, in New York, humans suffered an enormous blow to their chess ego when Deep Blue, a chess computer, outplayed Garry Kaspa-rov ... During the Kasparov-Deep Blue second match there was ...

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 ...