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LISBON, Portugal — Garry Kasparov knew as early as 1997 — 20 years ago — that humans were doomed, he says. It was in May of that year, in New York, that he lost a six-game chess match to IBM's Deep ...

Homo faber, man the maker. From the invention of the wheel to the glory and nightmare of today's technology, humans have been artificers. In this role of creator, humanity has both usurped and ...

When Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky faced Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk in the ninth round of the 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, the seasoned grandmasters drew upon years of ...

In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on ...

Kasparov, who was playing whites, agreed on Tuesday to a draw after 37 moves. The 40-year-old Russian-American will play three more games against “X3D Fritz” at the New York Athletic Club, but he is ...

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While Neo slugs it out with Agent Smith on the silver screen, chess champ Garry Kasparov is about to face off against a different -- but no less formidable -- computer adversary in New York this week.

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 ...