Chess Oscar was an international award given annually to the best chess player. The winner was selected by votes that were cast by chess journalists from across the world. The traditional voting procedure was to request hundreds of chess journalists from many countries to submit a list of the ten best players of the year.On that day, IBM's Deep Blue defeated the great Garry Kasparov who, after an early blunder, resigned in defeat. "The world champion Magnus Carlsen won't even play his computer," Soltis says Although Magnus Carlsen is (in my opinion) the greatest chess player of all time, there have been some arguments over the years favoring Garry Kasparov. Kasparov won 6 World Championship titles during his career but is perhaps most widely known for his matches against the Deep Blue chess engine in 1996 and 1997. He is a literal legend and this
World champion Magnus Carlsen let his great predecessor Garry Kasparov off the hook on Friday night when their much anticipated clash, their first for 16 years, ended in a 55-move draw in
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