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  Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess champ Kasparov

  By Bryan Bishop on September 29, 2012 07:33 am + 24 comments

  Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating Continue reading…

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  Old Nixie tubes hacked into glowing, electric chess set

  By Nathan Ingraham on June 27, 2012 05:57 pm + 11 comments

  Nixie tubes aren't exactly the most cutting-edge technology, but there's something to be said for Continue reading…

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  Alan Turing's 60-year-old chess program takes on Garry Kasparov

  By Bryan Bishop on June 26, 2012 04:46 pm + 12 comments

  The 100th anniversary of mathematician Alan Turing's birth has been celebrated in a number of d Continue reading…

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  Deep Blue: 15 years after IBM's supercomputer beat the chess world's champ

  By Bryan Bishop on May 11, 2012 08:10 pm + 14 comments

  On May 11th, 1997, a supercomputer named Deep Blue did what at the time seemed impossible: it Continue reading…

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  Professor works to outwit chess cheaters with software

  By T.C. Sottek on March 20, 2012 10:01 am + 4 comments

  It sounds more like something that would happen during a high school exam, but as The New York Times Continue reading…

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  Chess AI scene locked in bitter plagiarism dispute

  By Sam Byford on January 19, 2012 09:15 pm + 7 comments

  If you didn't know that there were raging battles surrounding the AI used in chess programs, you do Continue reading…