“The failure of Russia, I think, was a reflection of the ... He was, after all, the man who beat the first sophisticated chess computer, IBM’s Deep Blue, and then, in what many regard as ...

Rematch is a Disney Plus drama series to rival The Queen's Gambit as Christian Cooke plays chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.

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 ...

the most powerful chess computer of its day. Today, it seems obvious Kasparov should have lost. A computer's ability to calculate moves in a game by "brute force" is infinitely greater than a human's.

As the western world closed its doors to Russia after the 2022 invasion — withdrawing business, banning exports and prohibiting its sports teams from participating in international competitions — ...

Karpov, now 58, and Kasparov, 46, told Spanish newspaper El Pais they hoped the rematch in Valencia would put chess in the spotlight again. Karpov came from Russia to Valencia more than a week ago ...