The match was even after five games but Kasparov lost quickly in Game 6. The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world champion by a computer under tournament conditions. In 1995, during Kasparov’s world title match with Anand, he unveiled an opening novelty that had been checked with a chess engine, an […]

The rules provided for the developers to modify the program between games, an opportunity they said they used to shore up weaknesses in the computer’s play revealed during the course of the match. In April 1994, Intel acted as a sponsor for the first Professional Chess Association Grand Prix event in Moscow, played at a […]