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 ...

If you've never heard of the term 'mumblecore cinema' before, it's basically a subgenre of American independent cinema which is defined by its super low production values and generally amateurish ...

Inspur, a Chinese-chess computer, defeated five grandmasters on its debut at the first Inspur Cup Chinese Chess Human-and-Computer Match. The machine scored three wins, tied five times and lost only ...

Chess teams that pair humans with machines beat humans alone and beat unaccompanied machines. The lesson is that workers should not fear being replaced by technology, says Xavier Litt. Fri, 17 Jan, ...

Unbeknownst to many, a French coder has been attempting to make the smallest playable chess computer game and has succeeded with his 487-byte game, BootChess. Capable of being played on pretty much ...

It’s no secret that computers can smoke humans at chess. And now, as if to further mock our mere organic forms, scientists say they’ve created a computer made out of DNA that can play the board game — ...

In 1997, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost for the first time in history to a computer, Deep Blue. Twenty-seven years later, what has the human defeat against the machine taught us, and can ...

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 37 moves. The victory marked a turning point for humans and machines. On February 10, 1996, the then chess world ...

On the surface, the question “Why can’t computers play chess?” is ridiculous. Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov back in 1997. Deep Blue, the IBM Computer, won 2 games, Kasparov, the reigning world ...