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.

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...
Gizmodo

Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: the Chess Match That Changed Our Minds About AI

“If you want to know what the future of AI looks like, look at chess. It happened to us first, and it’s going to happen to all of you.” Reading time 13 minutes In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down ...
TechJuice

From Deep Blue to Modern AI: How One Chess Match Redefined Intelligence

From Deep Blue to modern AI, how chess exposed the shift from brute-force machines to learning systems, and why it matters AI ...

Checkmate in 37 moves: Deep Blue's silicon victory over Kasparov

In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 37 moves. The victory marked a turning ...
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 ...
Wired

Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...