Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous battle between IBM's Deep Blue and Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

presents a total of 118 games, played by 17 different chess engines, collected together for the first time in a single reference. details the processor speeds, memory sizes, and the number of ...

Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match against IBM's Deep Blue computer in ...

The new book "Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere" by Dr. Monty Newborn tells the continuing story of the chess engine and its steady improvement from its victory over Garry Kasparov to ...

Outside the chess world, however, Kasparov is best known for losing to a machine. In 1997, at the height of his powers, Kasparov was crushed and cowed by an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue.

The chess grandmaster took 23 years to deal with having his keester handed to him by an IBM computer in the game he made his name on.

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers ...

On May 11, 1997 Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigned after 19 moves in a game against "Deep Blue". "Deep Blue" is a chess-playing computer developed by scientists at IBM.

Kasparov lost in a similar man vs. machine clash against IBM’s specialized Deep Blue chess computer in 1997, starting a round of predictions that machines would soon be able to outthink humans ...