The 18-minute checkmate that made humanity question everything.
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.
Direction
Marshall squeezes apocalyptic dread from chess notation.
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a thriller, not a lecture.
Director
Frank Marshall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Frank Marshall also produced The Sixth Sense and Raiders of the Lost Ark—this is his only documentary.
Kasparov still claims IBM cheated by using human intervention between games; the '97 match remains disputed in chess lore.
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