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 ...

Position No. 5642: Black to play and win. From the game Ivakhin - Gabdrakhmanov, Tomsk 2001. Solution to Position No. 5641: White wins with 1 Rd4, setting up 2 Rg5 mate. Viswanathan Anand, the world’s ...

Chess is among the oldest and most venerated games of strategy, one with all the tension and drama of traditional spectator sports and the emerging e-sports market. But it's difficult to fully ...

Which are smarter, humans or machines? Back in 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer struck a blow for bots when it beat Garry Kasparov at chess. Deep Blue won because computers can perform endless ...

Fritz 9 is the latest version of the superpowered chess engine that was able to defeat Garry Kasparov, one of the world's best players. If that sounds like a challenge you're up to then Fritz 9 won't ...

In the summer of 1972, while Bobby Fischer was taking the world championship title from Boris Spassky, a British expert on artificial intelligence suggested a new form of the game, “consultation chess ...

The flurry of man-versus-machine matches that have taken place over the last few years makes it easy to paint the scenario of computers and humans as sworn enemies who will continue to fight for ...