Human vs Machine: Five epic fights against AI

After beating IBM's Deep Blue computer in a six-game chess match in 1996, Garry Kasparov played a rematch a year later that we called the "Slaughter on 7th Avenue". Catastrophe overtook the best chess mind of his era after Deep Blue played chess like no human. Prior to the game Garry Kasparov told New Scientist that Go's clock was ticking, but the scale of the defeat nevertheless came as a shock, not least to Sedol. The next frontier for AI in games is Starcraft 2, a space-war strategy game played in real time.