Though Kasparov would go on to win the six-game match in Philadelphia four games to two, the point had been made. A computer had defeated the best chess-playing human in the world.

The checkmate heard round the world happened twenty years ago last month, when reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game of chess to a computer, IBM's Deep Blue. Though Kasparov would ...

When artificial intelligence began beating the world’s greatest players, a chess grandmaster devised his own way to give human ingenuity an upper hand ...

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess ...

On this day in tech history, the Deep Blue chess computer became the first machine to win a game against a reigning world champion under regular tournament time controls.

After defeating an expert in Japanese chess, this computer program's next task is to figure out if you can make the payments on a new mortgage.