Garry Kasparov Becomes Youngest World Chess Champion (1985) In the 1984 World Chess Championship, 1980 World Junior Champion and international grandmaster Gary Kasparov faced reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov. The longest title match in chess history, it was aborted after 5 months of play and 48 games, after chess officials concluded that it was taking too great a psychological and physical toll on Karpov, who was leading but ...
Kasparov Beats Deep Blue (1996) Kasparov is a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest players in history. He was the youngest person to become the World Chess Federation's World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1985 until 1993. In 1996, Kasparov played against a super-computer called "Deep Blue," which was capable of evaluating 100 million positions per second. He lost the first game, ...
Blindfold Chess In blindfold chess, players engage in a chess match without being able to see or touch the pieces. Moves are communicated via chess notation, a system which describes the pieces' location on the board. While it is generally thought that most strong players can play at least one game blindfolded, some masters are able to play dozens of blindfolded games ...
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