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With AI driving more draws, chess players embrace unpredictability

Elite chess players are abandoning engine-approved strategies in favor of wild, hard-to-predict moves designed to break ...
Ars Technica

Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games

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 ...
NPR

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

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 ...
ExtremeTech

A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...
WFAE

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

Garry Kasparov, left, takes a pawn in the opening minutes of a chess game against IBM's Deep Blue computer in Philadelphia on Feb. 10, 1996. Feng-hsiung Hsu, right, the principal designer of Deep Blue ...