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A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.
The New York Times

‘Rematch’ Recreates a Cultural Touchstone

A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about artificial intelligence. By Dylan Loeb McClain It is rare that chess grabs ...
ExtremeTech

A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

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 have ...
Ars Technica

Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM’s Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than ...