A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about ...

CHESS05_065_LH.JPG Senior curator Dag Spicer showing the chess room. The two black towers behind him is Deep Blue which can prodcess 200 million chess positions per second at times up to 30 moves ...

Toward the end of game, Kasparov and Deep Blue were like “two sumo wrestlers battling one another at the edge of a high cliff,” as Monty Newborn, chairman of the computer chess committee for ...

Computing, as a science and an industry, has always been intimately connected with games, and with none more so than chess. In Chess, Qualified Respect for Computers - Los Angeles Times ...

Deep Blue’s victory after 45 moves and 3 hours and 42 minutes play was the second time in history that a computer program had defeated a reigning world champion in a classical chess format.

In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed ...

It was 15 years ago today that a computer - a conglomeration of transistors, memory, and storage media - could beat a world-class chess player. Called Deep Blue, the machine was part of a mission ...

Three months ago, computer scientists at IBM discovered a bug in their now-famous chess machine, Deep Blue. For some reason, as the computer searched way out along the lines of possibilities in ...

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 ...

Nearly two decades ago, IBM made headlines in much the same way when its Deep Blue computer defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov (above). Murray Campbell was one of the key figures in Deep ...

So it’s not surprising that eight years after IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in what was billed as the ultimate test of man vs. machine, experts still ...