Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
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Directed by	Vikram Jayanti
Produced by	Hal Vogel
Narrated by	Marc Ghannoum
Starring	Joel Benjamin Michael Greengard Anatoly Karpov Garry Kasparov Jeff Kisselhof
Music by	Robert Lane
Cinematography	Maryse Alberti
Editing by	David G. Hill
Distributed by	THINKFilm
Release date(s)	September 5, 2003
Running time	90 min
Country	Canada United Kingdom
Language	English
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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine is a 2003 documentary film by Vikram Jayanti about the match between Garry Kasparov, the highest rated chess player in history and the World Champion for 15 years (1985–2000), and Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer created by IBM.

In 1997, Kasparov played his second chess match against Deep Blue, a computer designed specifically to beat Kasparov in chess. In the second game, Kasparov set a trap that most computers fall for. Deep Blue didn't fall for it. From this experience, Kasparov suspected IBM, the creator of Deep Blue, of cheating by using a human player during the game to increase the strategic strength of the computer. As metaphor for this suspicion, the film weaves in the story of the Turk, a hoax involving a chess-playing automaton built in the eighteenth century, but secretly operated by human beings. (The film also implies that Deep Blue's heavily promoted victory was a ploy by IBM to boost its market value.) Deep Blue went on to win the match in the sixth game, marking the first time in history that a computer defeated the World Champion in a match of several games.

The film was nominated for a 2003 International Documentary Association award. It was coproduced by Alliance Atlantis and the National Film Board of Canada.