Garry Kasparov bests Deep Blue, the IBM computer programmed to play chess, in match play in February 1996. A year later, an updated version of Deep Blue would beat the world champion. Ten years ...

Murray Campbell of IBM was part of the Deep Blue project. As he says, chess computers do play differently. They make moves that sometimes make no sense to their human opponents.

In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

Chess is flipping our intuitions about creativity and automation inside out: Computers don’t just execute ideas but conceive them, such that to describe a human player as “machinelike” doesn ...

Chess computers fail at Penrose’s chess puzzle because they have a database of end-games to choose from. This board is not, Tagg and Penrose believe, in the computer’s playbook.

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari ...

AI not so new in chess. Computers have been an integral part of chess since 1997. Back then, the IBM mainframe computer Deep Blue beat the then-world champion Gary Kasparov.

At the SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia 2025 in Zagreb, Gukesh has defeated six strong players including Carlsen and ...

By rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.