World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...

IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

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This week marks 29 years since an epic man versus machine battle. It's when IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat Garry ...

With leading AI developers like Murray Campbell, who headed up IBM’s Deep Blue project, David Silver who was behind Deep Mind’s AlphaGo and Jennifer Chu Carroll who worked on IBM Watson ...

This milestone was reached in the late 1990s when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a match. Since then, AI chess engines have continued to advance ...