Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds
When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.
5 Months, 48 Games, No Winner: A Chess Battle Under Spy Agency KGB's Shadow
The 1984-85 World Chess Championship between defending champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Garry Kasparov was abandoned ...
History Today: When Chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a game to a computer
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game to IBM-developed supercomputer Deep Blue. This defining moment in ...
"Why Does It Look Like We Took D Gukesh Hostage?" YouTuber's Viral Photo Sparks Reactions
Indian chess grandmaster D Gukesh, the world's youngest chess champion, was photographed with American-Canadian streamer ...
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,091
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed his nation’s exclusion from the Riyadh talks, saying negotiations to end the ...
AI program plays the long game to solve decades-old math problems
A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov had been abandoned. “I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy ...