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6.7/10   543 votes
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Director:
Vikram Jayanti
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Release Date:
23 January 2004 (UK) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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Kasparov may have lost, but IBM surely could've cheated as well... more (22 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Marc Ghannoum ... Voice Over
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Joel Benjamin ... Himself
Michael Greengard ... Himself
Anatoli Karpov ... Himself (archive footage)
Garry Kasparov ... Himself
Jeff Kisselhof ... Himself
John Searle ... Himself
Terry Wogan ... Himself (interviewing Garry Kasparov) (archive footage)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for brief mild language.
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Runtime:
90 min | Canada:84 min (Ontario)
Country:
Canada | UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:G (Ontario) | UK:PG | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Bled, Slovenia more
Company:
Alliance Atlantis Communications more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Garry Kasparov: [after being defeated by Deep Blue] I think the competition just started! more
Movie Connections:
Features Le joueur d'échecs (1927) more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Kasparov may have lost, but IBM surely could've cheated as well..., 21 December 2004
Author: al666940-3 from Auckland, New Zealand

I saw the documentary, and saw the actual games in 1997.

Kasparov could surely be a fine actor, since the guy is very expressive and charismatic.

Whenever he felt good and winning, you could see it. And when he was losing and crumbling, you could see it too. Was way obvious. Like the documentary say, Kasparov would be the worst poker player in the world.

Now, did IBM cheat?

Who knows. Anything is possible

Arguments against it: Kasparov could've taken for granted Deep Blue's playing antics as the one of a normal computer, and since IBM had a grandmaster chess player advising the programmers, it's not so wild to conceive that they managed to program Deep Blue to be able to spot traps like the one Kasparov set up that wouldv'e nailed any other computer. And he's a paranoid (coming from the U.R.S.S. no one can blame him), since chess is also psychologic warfare, IBM surely did it's best to psyche out Kasparov and play his paranoid assumptions.

Arguments for it: Kasparov won fist game easy, but lost second when Deep Blue didn't take a bait a compute would've taken. Maybe losing the first game was intended to lower Kasparov's defenses so he would try a play like that, and there Deep Blue would surprise him, psyche him out and steamroll. But that's a human strategy, not a machine's (the computer only knows the game in front of it, doesn't know there are six games total, so it would NEVER sacrifice one to try to surprise Kasparov in the next one).

Also IBM,s attitude, while could be attributed to psyching out Kasparov (fueling his paranoia), looked totally like a cheater's conduct. Also when they won (no rematch, no further research, dismantling of Deep Blue) doesn't look like honest behavior (first truly artificial intelligence? Who would NOT follow through with research?), but like a cheater who won and now has to skip town before he's discovered.

And, the final nail: Why shouldn't IBM cheat? To IBM, it's nothing but a marketing stunt, nothing else. The whole point was not to beat Kasparov or improve artificial intelligence (or they would've continued the work on Deep Blue, published the groundbreaking work, patented programming code, etc), but only to improve stock value and reposition themselves on the market. So why not cheat if necessary? Like a company would be above that (Enron, etc.) or anything for that matter to increase profit.

But since there's no way to verify what Deep Blue did (thanks to IBM, like e-voting paperless machines, "trust us"), we'll never know...

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