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.

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 development for six years in preparation to face ...

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 ...

It took IBM’s Deep Blue just 19 moves to defeat world chess champion Garry Kasparov a stunning finale to an epic week-long battle of man versus machine. Not mollified by his $400,000 loser’s ...

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 ...

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.

This milestone was reached in the late 1990s when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a match. Since then, AI chess engines have continued to advance ...

"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 training. And so, now there is this accepted thing of 'healthy body, healthy ...

In 1997, Deep Blue, a computer designed by IBM, took on the undefeated world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Kasparov lost. Some argued that computers had progressed to be "smarter" than humans.

Discover the history behind the famous battle between IBM's Deep Blue and Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Improve your game with a lesson from a chess expert. Learn about the use of computers in the ...