Sports
I’m feverishly flipping my Times (May 12) for the result of the final Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue.
May 16, 1997
Technology and the Internet
IBM has retired Deep Blue, the supercomputer that made history when it defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in May, a company spokeswoman said.
Sept. 24, 1997
World & Nation
Until his retirement from the professional game in 2005, Garry Kasparov was widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time.
March 20, 2018
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov failed Monday to unseat an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin as head of the World Chess Federation.
Aug. 11, 2014
Garry Kasparov enters the game of politics in Russia, planning to use a player’s strategy to attack the president and promote democracy.
May 22, 2005
Tournament: Garry Kasparov’s loss to IBM’s Deep Blue in Philadelphia marks the first time a machine has won under classic game rules.
Feb. 11, 1996
Archives
Chess: His offer of a draw is rejected by IBM team to test computer’s reaction. He then rallies to defeat Deep Blue, which made mistakes.
Feb. 17, 1996
WHEN THE KNIGHT sat down across from Death to play a game of chess in Ingmar Bergman’s movie classic “The Seventh Seal,” their game was not without precedent: Wilhelm Steinitz, the world champion from 1866 to 1894, claimed, near the end of his life, that he had exhausted all potential human opponents and was playing a match against God--giving the Latter pawn odds.
Oct. 7, 1990
Games: School teams competing in Garry Kasparov’s online tournament earned a trip to New York for the final round and matches against the master himself.
June 30, 2000
Technology: When Garry Kasparov fell to the mighty computer, it made the rest of us techno-phobes feel sooooo much better.
May 14, 1997