The Man vs. The Machine

Frank Marshall
2014-10-22


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18 min

On May 2,1997, Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest human chess player ever, sat down in New York City to do battle with IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. While the much hyped match of man versus machine consisted of six chess games over nine days, there are many who would claim the entire contest was decided in just one move. This short documentary tells the epic tale of how mankind lost to the machine and highlighting what may have been man's ultimate downfall…having emotions.

Cast

Name Character Team
Nate Silver Self Unowned
Jeremy Schaap Self Unowned
Bruce Pandolfini Self Unowned
Maurice Ashley Self Unowned
Joel Benjamin Self Unowned