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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 ...
It's been 16 years since Deep Blue first beat Gary Kasparov at chess representing a major breakthrough in terms of the ability of computers to surpass to outperform humans at certain tasks. But now ...
Twenty-four years ago on Monday, a world chess champion came up against a force too great to overcome: a computer. Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996, against ...
In the spring of 1997, a supercomputer built by a team of IBM scientists stunned the world by beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov, considered one of the greatest chess players in history. Deep Blue, as ...
Movies about the past, if they’re any good, tend to express some sort of anxiety about the present. By that measure, it’s not difficult to see at a glance what prompted indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski ...
You need no particular knowledge or affection for the game of kings to appreciate the whimsy of “Computer Chess.” The genius of this indie is its cleverness in capturing the driest of times and the ...