If you're getting a little long in the tooth, and grey on top, then you might be stuck back in the days of yon when chess software wasn't worth the price of the floppy disk that it came on. Well my friend, times have changed, and this is definitely NOT your father's chess software we're talking about here. Human vs. Computer Computer chess software really came into its own in February 1996 when legendary Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov played a six-game match in Philadelphia against IBM C.