Could/would IBM let Kasparov see 'inside' the machine? That's where the focus should have been. It would have been nice to have been told: was this a one-off 'just for the money'? Was it part of the world championship cycle? What was the final score? The nub of the film was the play in game two. It was the first computer to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. I no longer follow professional chess enough to know when and where this was. Deep Blue was a chess-playing supercomputer developed by IBM. What would we have seen of interest inside anyway - a little grandmaster? Also, the recent match against Karpov. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Also, I didn't find it interesting to see in detail where Deep Blue was now and seeing an IBM techie trying, unsuccessfully to 'open' it. A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. There were other shots of Kasparov being walked round the site of the 1997 match and being told where he sat and where Deep Blue was located. There were lots of shots of corridors being walked down and Kasparov gazing out in the hall where he won the World Championship. Trouble is, the content could have been fitted in a 30-minute documentary. I am a chess player and I wanted to like this film.
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