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Who Defeated a Computer in Chess Tournament?

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The 1996 match of retired chess player Garry Kasparov and supercomputer Deep Blue contributed to establishing Garry Kasparov as one of the greatest chess players in history. Although Kasparov beat Deep Blue in 1996, Deep Blue reclaimed its honor in their 1997 chess rematch, winning the six-game battle.  No person has beaten a computer in […]

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First game of chess against a computer was played in 1952 by Alan Turing. Because there were no computers powerful enough to actually run the program Alan Turing “ran” the program manually on a piece of paper

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Turochamp Alan Turing at age 16 Alan Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer.

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