Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
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. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov’s perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspicions that have arisen around IBM’s true tactics. It consists of interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself.
The good parts of the movie is that you have interviews with Kasparov and the IBM team. Kasparov is a charming guy. The IBM team are open and friendly. The movie shows both the bad and good sides of Kasparov, who displays dignity and his temper when he is being pushed around by IBM. The Deep Blue team are interesting, but the IBM company does not come off well. They milk the match for all advertising they could get. The movie keeps touting that it was a victory of machine intelligence over Man, but the point I get from it is, several computer geeks and chess grand masters after years of effort can put together a program that can barely beat a world champion, if they take every single psychological and technical advantage they can.
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This is a great movie of the greatest living sport legend the world has seen. You will love Garry Kasparov for his humility!!! A must watch. IBM sucks.
hes just bitter. although they allude to the turk, they present no evidence that IBM cheated. gary’s trap diddnt work and he got upset
when posed the same situation from game 2, the following current programs have been found to make the same (correct) move as deep blue: Fritz 11, Shredder 11, Rybka 3, Chess Tiger.
Despite all of my admiration for Gary, I think he is indeed bittered by the progress, which demonstrates in a way the definite domination of digit in our society about that time. And I doubt if IBM should ever put at stake their credibility and pr by playing false.
This is a good documentary, although it is really biased. As a computer scientist who has worked on chess engines before, the claims that this documentary made are ridiculous. Deep Blue was a major milestone for computing and artificial intelligence, and for IBM as a profit seeking company, it was of course also a major money maker. However, there is nothing wrong with that. The IBM team did a good job and deserved more recognition than they got. I have much respect for Kasparov, and still see him as one of the greatest chess players ever, regardless of his matches against computers.
Even though the documentary did strongly point (without concrete evidence) to foul play by IBM, my own interpretation is that Kasparov’s ego felt diminished, his invincibility disappeared – especially after game 2. He could not recover, even many years later Karpov beat him, and this is just my opinion – I think the ghosts from the past were responsible for that, because Kasparov is better then Karpov.
With all this said, he is the greatest chess player ever, and I feel sorry for the agony and constant pressure he has created himself all because he could not phantom a computer could do that.
I think bobby fisher is better than karpov and kasparov. And if IBM didn’t cheat they would have had no issue with a rematch. I believe they cheated.
this is a GREAT documentary… really interesting. i certainly didnt know there was so much mystery and intrigue surrounding this.
Sports legend? Lol, that’s a stretch. Still, a fascinating documentary.
I really enjoyed the documentary. I too didn’t know there was so much controversy surrounding the match.
But I have to say, it really felt to me that Gary was just bitter and still after all the years couldn’t let go that he was defeated.
I didn’t even think IBM played dirty. I mean, what happened? Gary saw some telescopes in the building across from him and he wasn’t allowed to view Deep Blue’s logs…
Some say there ware 7 grand masters behind the scene that supported Deep Blue , one 3 times US champion that was ranked 10 in the world at one point.
Its even said that it was Karpov himself behind Deep Blue from game two , cos IBM saw that they have no chance if they let computer play all 6 games ,witch also ment lose of millions of $ in every way for the company .
And also Kasparov saw it , and he say it even now that he saw Karpov moves that are only characteristic for him.
Who knows , but yet again Kasparov proven that even with all that 2000 000 000 000 combinations in a minute cant brake human mind = win ,1 draw missed after disapointment , 3 draws and one here you go you low life non emotional pigs have a win….
um, what’s with the whispering narrative? i could barely make out what mr. whisper was saying……
Kasparov got beat, whether by machine or human intelligence, he needed to face that fact but was too insecure or weak of character.
The “turk” images and continual biased references throughout the documentary tainted the film.
I didn’t know much about this match against deep blue, you learn a great deal of things watching this documentary especialy events between games.
Although you can’t conclude that IBM cheated, you can’t deny that this game wasn’t friendly at all. In some way IBM wasn’t trying to play chess, Kasparov couldn’t see any games or any log… You can be sure, they tested the computer’s moves against Kasparov’s previous games so them saying it would be unfair to the computer giving logs isn’t quite true.
When you look with some perspective, you realise it’s not a big win, still the team from IBM behaves like they crushed him… Well may be mentaly, but Kasparov was playing a computer they should have made the event way more relaxing and behaved in such a manner that it would down size that aspect which only affects one side.
The documentary was some times slow paced and could be less than 1 hour long. The whispering voice was a bit annoying but still worth seeing.
I know IBM is hiding something,it’s very evident from the fact that at the end when they ask him to open up deep blue to show the viewers , he says it’s locked and then gulps, this is often a sign of deep emotion and deception while lying, they definitely were hiding something and still are