May 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1858, Minnesota joined the United States as the 32nd state. In 1862, the Confederate navy destroyed its iron-clad vessel Merrimac to prevent it from falling ...

On a cool Sunday morning in May 1997, reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov sat in defeat. It had been a highly publicized, weeklong affair, and after six controversial matches — three of which ...

CORRECTS story dated May 11 to remove reference to facial recognition in para 16. With his hand pushed firmly into his cheek and his eyes fixed on the table, Garry Kasparov shot a final dark glance at ...

More than a decade has passed since IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by defeating Garry Kasparov, international chess champion. Following Deep Blue's retirement, there has been a succession ...

Jeff Fadness, who guided Caledonia to a 29-0 season and the Class AA state championship, was named the new varsity head coach at Austin High School. Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov conceded ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

This story originally published in December 2020. The cracks in Garry Kasparov’s armor began to show around move 13 of his first encounter with Deep Blue. The IBM supercomputer had been under ...

The console Gen Xers used to play Pac-Man and Pitfall on apparently was better than anyone knew.

With his hand pushed firmly into his cheek and his eyes fixed on the table, Garry Kasparov shot a final dark glance at the chessboard before storming out of the room: the king of chess had just been ...

The chess world was shocked at Garry Kasparov's defeat in New York in 1997 - Copyright AFP Noel Celis The chess world was shocked at Garry Kasparov's defeat in New ...