Katy Steinmetz is a creative director at Catchword, a naming agency based in Oakland, California, and former San Francisco bureau chief for Time.

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 ...

When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

This week marks 29 years since an epic man versus machine battle. It's when IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue, beat Garry Kasparov, the world's best chess player, in 37 moves. Kasparov eventually ...