Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous battle between IBM's Deep Blue and Grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

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 ...

The historic chess event between the legendary Garry Kasparov and the IBM machine Deep Blue is reimagined and told in “Rematch.” Although the second showdown between the two took place three decades ...

File Photo by Kokeyama/Wikimedia In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game rematch in New York. It was the second time the computer beat the world chess champion.

Watch ‘Rematch’ for its tense, human drama about a genius confronting the unsettling rise of machine intelligence.

Kasparov lost in a similar man vs. machine clash against IBM’s specialized Deep Blue chess computer in 1997, starting a round of predictions that machines would soon be able to outthink humans ...