Why Computer-Assisted Humans Are The Best Chess Players And What That Means For Technology Operations. ... To win, a chess player must consider multiple moves ahead, ...

Computers have revolutionised the way chess is played – and the best chess programs are impossible to beat. But could a player that’s part human and part computer be even more powerful? It all ...

In the spring of 1997, a supercomputer built by a team of IBM scientists stunned the world by beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov, considered one of the greatest chess players in history. Deep Blue ...

Having a computer opponent can help chess players train, writes Finley, but Kasparov also said the original draw of teaching computers to play chess wasn’t just about teaching them to win.

Perhaps the machine uprising begins on the chessboard. At London’s Imperial College, one student used artificial intelligence to train his computer to be one of the best chess players in the ...

Kasparov retired from professional chess in 2005 and has worked as a Russian pro-democracy advocate, according to this website. He is considered one of the greatest chess players in history.

Kasparov played professionally from the early 1980s and became the youngest-ever world chess champion after defeating Anatoly Karpov in 1985, a title he held until a loss to Vladimir Kramnik in 2000.

In the mid-1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing (pictured) began theorizing ways that a computer could play chess against a human. Across the Atlantic, in 1949, Bell Labs researcher Claude ...

The watershed moment in computerized chess came in 1997 when the world champion, Garry Kasparov, was defeated by a computer called Deep Blue. And the computers of today are dramatically better still.