8.548 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
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1997. Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player of all time, faces Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer. Two brains, face to face; one man against an empire; a battle of humans against machines that forever changed the perception of artificial intelligence.
Acting
Cooke's Kasparov: arrogant, fragile, absolutely insufferable, you love him.
Production
Period-perfect 1997 dread — beige computers never looked so menacing.
Direction
Chess as gladiatorial combat, complete with crowd gasps.
Creators
Bruno Nahon, Yan England, André Gulluni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Kasparov demanded a rematch IBM never granted; the series fictionalizes his revenge fantasy.
Deep Blue's 'win' was actually a bug — the computer made a random move Kasparov misread as genius, breaking him psychologically.
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