Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003)

Directed by

Vikram Jayanti

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom, Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the 1997 chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's computer Deep Blue. It questions whether the computer had human help during the games and explores what the loss meant for Kasparov and the game of chess.

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What happens

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine is a 2003 Canadian documentary film by Vikram Jayanti about the match between Garry Kasparov, the highest-rated chess player in history (at the time) and the World Champion for 15 years (1985–2000), and Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer created by IBM. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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