Deep Blue vs Kasparov
This famous 1997 chess match, declared by "Newsweek" to be "The Brain's Last Stand", marked the first time that the general public came to feel that machines might truly outthink humans.
For over fifteen hundred years, chess has been the ultimate contest of intellect – a quiet battlefield of calculation, foresight and nerve. Indeed, during the Age of Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin, in his essay “The Morals of Chess” (1786), wrote: “The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement” but…
