Garry Kasparov

Moscow protest draws more than 100,000 anti-Putin marchers

2011-12-24 16:37:45

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Discoveries: 'The Chairs Are Where the People Go' by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti

2011-07-24 00:00:00

The Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live, Work, and Play in the City Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti Faber and Faber:: 175 pp., $13 paper Sheila Heti wanted to write about her friend Misha Glouberman. The Canadian performance artists had...

At age 10, chess master is already an old pro

2011-05-05 00:00:00

IBM's Watson on 'Jeopardy': The machine has won

2011-02-16 21:36:37

IBM computer to compete on 'Jeopardy!' with two of game show's best contestants

2010-12-14 16:35:39

IBM computer named Watson will battle 'Jeopardy' champs for $1 million

2011-01-13 16:34:31

'Jeopardy!': A singular moment, or the onset of singularity?

2011-02-14 16:35:20

Watson wins 'Jeopardy!' finale; Ken Jennings welcomes 'our new computer overlords'

2011-02-16 21:36:34

And you don't want to know what's going to happen to Britney

2007-12-31 00:00:00

How right were my 2007 predictions? Let's just say they included oil at $100 a barrel, the sub-prime meltdown and racist outbursts from Don Imus, Bill O'Reilly and Tom Hanks. Trust me, today is going to be a bad day for Hanks. For 2008, I see a lot of...

Gorbachevs heir

2007-04-17 00:00:00

One year ago this month I found myself in the unusual position of hosting lunch for Mikhail Gorbachev. It was a work meeting at the L.A. Times, not some kind of rubber-chicken tribute (the former Soviet president was in town to talk up his Green Cross...

Bobby Fischer dies at 64; reclusive genius of the chess board

2008-01-19 00:00:00

Bobby Fischer, the enigmatic American chess genius who became a Cold War hero with his 1972 defeat of Soviet champion Boris Spassky but fell from grace in later decades when he became a recluse and fugitive known for his hate-filled rants, has died. He...

Cool it, it's not a Cold War

2007-06-06 00:00:00

NEWS REPORTS these days opine with tiresome regularity that Russia and the United States are headed for a new Cold War. But don't believe the hype. It's true enough that Moscow and Washington have been exchanging cross words. Defense Secretary Robert M....

Do you think he'll ever get a rematch? Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, who famously lost to the IBM computer Deep Blue in 1997, turns 48 today. (Photo by Dmitry Kostyukovia/AFP/Getty Images)

2009-04-11 22:37:19

Despite the smoke from grenades fired by members and supporters of the banned National Bolshevik party, an anti-Putin rally in Moscow's Pushkin Square Monday was uncharacteristically peaceful.

2007-06-15 10:55:49

Former World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov makes a move during the opening moments of the 15th game in the world chess championships at the Riverside Studios as his opponent, Vladimir Kramnik, looks on in Hammersmith in west London on Nov. 2.

2000-11-03 07:06:00