Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...

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IBM's Deep Blue system achieved its first victory over a world chess champion on February 10, 1996, when it won the first game of a six-game match against Garry Kasparov. Despite this initial loss ...

Most remember it as the watch worn by Marty McFly in the classic ... chess games would arrive by 1992. Kasparov was defeated in 1997 by Deep Blue, and in the modern era, just about every computer ...

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Although computer games are like stories and films, some things are different. In a computer game we control the characters inside the story. We can: make the characters on the screen move around ...