IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

“The first world computer chess championship was won in Stockholm by a Russian program called Kaissa, with four victories and no defeats. Three programs each lost one game. The tie was broken ...

Chess grand master Magnus Carlsen is promoting a new tour that scrambles the game’s rules — and has prompted criticism from ...

FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...

That is now completely sufficient to prepare the variations in a world championship ... been an integral part of chess since 1997. Back then, the IBM mainframe computer Deep Blue beat the then ...

The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off next month ... the pieces on the back rank are reshuffled, meaning that computer-backed preparations leading to sometimes dull openings ...

The Freestyle Chess World Championship will kick off in Germany ... the pieces on the back rank are reshuffled, meaning that computer-backed preparations leading to sometimes dull openings ...