A Russian chess grandmaster, this man lost to a computer in 1997
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Deep Blue beat G. Kasparov in 1997 - YouTube  May 13, 2007 - 6 min - Uploaded by EustakeThe computer won the match 3.5 - 2.5 and Kasparov lost a chess match for ..... to  plan ...
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Deep Blue (chess computer) - Wikipedia  Deep Blue versus Kasparov. ... The first match began on February 10, 1996, in which Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion (Garry Kasparov) under regular time controls.
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Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia  Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. ... The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion to a computer under tournament conditions.
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Humancomputer chess matches - Wikipedia  This article documents the progress of significant humancomputer chess matches. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous success was the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, but .... The Harvard Cup Man versus Computer Chess Challenge was organized by...
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Kasparov defeats chess-playing computer - Feb 17, 1996 ...  In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry ... of chess, was born April 13, 1963, in the Russian republic of Azerbaijan. ... Instead, much to his frustration, the world chess champ lost the first game to Deep Blue. ... A heavily publicized 6-game rematch between man and machine began on May 3, 1997.
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How One Man Dreamed Up Tetris, the Game That Shook the World ...  Aug 29, 2016 ... Alexey Pajitnov photographed on April 9, 2015. ... time here and there over the next several weeks to pare his new game to its most basic elements. ... This new invention called the tetromino was at the game's heart, and the ... Russian architectural icons that players of any of the classic 1980s versions will...
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Higher Games - MIT Technology Review  Aug 15, 2007 ... It's been 10 years since IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in chess. ... Chess requires brilliant thinking, supposedly the one feat that would ... Blue, which beat Garry Kasparov in a highly publicized match in 1997. ... the exploratory processes that Kasparov used when he conjured up his chess moves.
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KASPAROV BEATS DEEP THOUGHT - NYTimes.com  Jan 14, 1990 ... The first champion, Gary Kasparov, is considered by many aficionados ... The two-game match between the champions, which took place in New York ... Pittsburgh, where Deep Thought is located, and both have recently become .... Kasparov said as much a few years ago: ''If a computer can beat the world...
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Deep Blue - IBM  In 1997, IBM Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a world chess ... after a six-game match: two wins for IBM, one for the champion and three draws. ... working on his dissertation project: a chess playing machine he called ChipTest. ... DC, but IBM went on to build new kinds of massively parallel computers such as...
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Deep Thought (chess computer) - Wikipedia  Deep Thought was a computer designed to play chess. Deep Thought was initially developed ... Deep Thought became the first computer to beat a grandmaster in a regular tournament game when it ... but was easily defeated in both games of a two-game match with Garry Kasparov in 1989 as well as in a ... Software Labs.
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Steven Levy : page 18 - Newsweek  Meanwhile, by not playing his normal game, Kasparov would require more time to plan ... and as programmers become more successful at transforming those calculations ... And, possibly, the last chess champion who will ever utter those words. .... too much about chess," says Feng-HsiungHsu, Deep Blue's original creator;...
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Garry Kasparov, horoscope for birth date 13 April 1963, born in Baku ...  Apr 1, 2015 ... Birthname, Garik Kimovich Weinstein. born on, 13 April 1963 at 23:45 (= 11:45 PM ). Place, Baku ... Soviet chess player and world champion after defeating A. Karpov in 1985. He defended his title ... chess history. At age 22, he was the youngest world champion ever, and 12 years later even stronger.
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Bobby Fischer - Wikipedia  Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943  January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster, the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. In 1972, he captured the World Chess Championship from Boris Spassky of ... After losing his title as World Chess Champion, Fischer became reclusive...
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Rage Against The Machines | FiveThirtyEight  Oct 23, 2014 ... Nor did he see their victory over humans at chess as being .... But chess computers had long been rather poor at the opening .... three to five moves, to capture an opponent's piece or accomplish ..... Why had Deep Blue not elected to press forward with its queen? .... How Do You Make a Computer Blink?
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The chess games of Viktor Korchnoi - Chessgames.com  Chess games of Viktor Korchnoi, career statistics, most famous victories, ... S Tatai vs Korchnoi, 1978 0-1 ... Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Rematch (1981) ... Korchnoi - Geller Candidates Quarterfinal (1971), but lost his semifinal match to ... Korchnoi defected from the USSR in 1976, and two years later he finally...
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World Chess Championship 1972 - Wikipedia  The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky ... The expectations on Spassky were enormous because for the Soviets, chess was part of the political system. While Fischer was often...
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Game Theory - The New Yorker  Mar 1, 2004 ... There is also the artificial-intelligence problem, and it's not trivial. ... of attention that the 1972 world-championship match, between Boris Spassky ... Both Fischer and Spassky had been on the international chess scene for ... Spassky had won the crown in 1969, by beating his fellow-Soviet Tigran Petrosian.
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Exclusive interview with ex-FIDE World Chess Champion Alexander ...  Jul 19, 2010 ... Garry Kasparov has always been a very ambitious player, fighting for the initiative since .... Anatoly Karpov, Susan Polgar, Alexander Khalifman
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FischerSpassky (1992 match) - Wikipedia  The 1992 match between former World Chess Champions Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky .... Fischer insisted that since he has not been defeated in a match, he was still the true World Champion. He further claimed that all the games in the...
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Fischer-Spassky Iceland 1972 - Chess.com  Dec 13, 2007 ... The challenger to the World title was the American, Bobby Fischer. ... By 1970, the World chess champion was Boris Spassky who had become an ... among themselves and then playing hard to beat me, so they were..having one or two ... The contest was set to take place in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland,...
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Controversial Chess Title Is Won by Russian : Games: Las Vegas ...  Aug 29, 1999 ... Alexander Khalifman of Russia hit the chess jackpot Saturday by defeating ... In June, Garry Kasparov of Russia, the top-ranked player in history, and his ... The federation's own champion, Anatoly Karpov of Russia, bowed out...