The collapse of the Soviet Union was the beginning of the big change ... And the computer never makes a less than optimal move. They have changed the face of tournament chess, he says.

It was in May of that year, in New York, that he lost a six-game chess match to IBM's Deep Blue, the most powerful chess computer of its ... when he failed to see a move that could have forced ...

Computers have been an integral part of chess since 1997. Back then, the IBM mainframe computer Deep Blue beat the then-world champion Gary Kasparov. The next big developmental step came in 2017 ...