Kasparov and the machine -BBC documentary

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MikeTasker
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Kasparov and the machine -BBC documentary

Post by MikeTasker » Sat Dec 24, 2016 4:34 pm

Noticed this on the BBC Iplayer
Some seasonal chess viewing (though it is up for nine months).

Storyville - Kasparov and the Machine
'Man battles machine in the story of the chess master's controversial matches against IBM's Deep Blue computer.
No one thought chess-playing computers would ever defeat the artful intuition of the best grandmasters. But in 1997, Garry Kasparov lost a six-game match to Deep Blue. This film follows Kasparov back to New York, the scene of his torment, and asks what went wrong. It concentrates on the infamous second game, when Deep Blue suddenly started playing cannily, sensitively, as no machine ever had. Had its programmers achieved the impossible? Kasparov is sceptical, to put it mildly. '
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The full title is Game Over:Kasparov and the Machine a 90 minute documentary first shown in 2004. Not much chess analysis but good archive footage and interviews with Gary.

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