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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

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Canada, United Kingdom · 2003
Rated PG · 1h 30m
Director Vikram Jayanti
Starring Marc Ghannoum, Joel Benjamin, Michael Greengard, Anatoli Karpov
Genre Documentary

Garry Kasparov is possibly the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997, he played a match against the greatest chess computer: IBM's Deep Blue. He lost. This film depicts the drama that happened away from the chess board, and explores the psychological aspects of the paranoia surrounding IBM's ultimate chess machine.

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Village Voice by Dennis Lim

Game Over's brazen lopsidedness may diminish its credibility, but it taps into the essence of all conspiracy theories-the desperate desire to believe.

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New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

Aside from conspiracy theories, Kasparov's undoing inspires a fascinating discourse on genius, competition, humanity and the ghost in the machine.

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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

In spite of clunky effects and often extraordinarily ugly video footage, Game Over works very well just as a sports doc.

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Variety by Robert Koehler

Though it never disguises its sympathies for Kasparov and contempt for a powerful corporation's machinations, documentary is finally a speculation on the limits of the human mind and how truth can never be fully known.

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