This week in Philly history, a man and a computer face off in the final match of an intensely followed chess tournament
This week in Philly history, a man and a computer face off in the final match of an intensely followed chess tournament Garry ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
Swissinfo1d
Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov slams Swiss inaction on Putin’s killer drones
Switzerland must do more to stop Swiss components from ending up in Russian drones used to attack Ukraine, says Russian chess grandmaster and dissident Garry Kasparov. Despite sanctions, Western parts ...
5 Months, 48 Games, No Winner: A Chess Battle Under Spy Agency KGB's Shadow
The 1984-85 World Chess Championship between defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov was abandoned ...
History Today: When Chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game to a computer
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds
When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.
"Why Does It Look Like We Took D Gukesh Hostage?" YouTuber's Viral Photo Sparks Reactions
Indian chess grandmaster D Gukesh, the world's youngest chess champion, was photographed with American-Canadian streamer ...
D Gukesh says Magnus Carlsen's record peak rating can be surpassed, but will be 'very challenging'
Magnus Carlsen had achieved a rating of 2882, the highest in chess history, in May 2014, breaking the record that had ...
Join Slate’s open thread for the week of February 10.
Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...
CNN7d
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov had been abandoned. “I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy ...