IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10 ... Kasparov triumphed in three of the following games and drew the remaining two.

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

Using a database of tens of thousands of top-level games, Kenneth Regan, himself an international chess master, has devised a program that can help determine whether a player is playing like a human ...