Hadley Fraser and Kenneth Lee in “The Machine” at the Park Avenue Armory (all images by Stephanie Berger and courtesy Park Avenue Armory) The Machine opened at the Manchester International Festival ...

Despite its title, The Machine isn’t really about Deep Blue, the supercomputer that famously beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997. As rendered by Matt Charman and bombastically directed by ...

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 ...

Garry Kasparov recently battled his silicon competitor, Deep Junior, to a six game draw. The Wall Street Journal is carrying an opinion piece by Kasparov which may offer some insight to his reluctance ...

Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Learn about the use of computers in the game and the evolution of chess engines. Discover the history behind the famous ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chess legend Garry Kasparov, who still bitterly contests his loss to a computer six years ago, averted a similar defeat Friday when he agreed to a draw in the last game of his series ...

In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on ...

Hadley Fraser will star as Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in the world premiere of Matt Charman’s new play The Machine, which premieres at Manchester International Festival next month.