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 ...

You might laugh and say I'm reminiscing again, but recently, while thinking about various things regarding AI, I remembered a television program I saw about 30 years ago.It was a documentary about a ...

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

This famous John-Henry-with-a-rook story is the subject of the graphic novel “Mind vs. Machine: The Chess Match That Changed the World,” written by Ashley and Steve Sheinkin, and illustrated by the ...

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...

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The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM’s Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game is about more than ...