The Man vs. The Machine

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The Man vs. The Machine (2014)

Directed by Frank Marshall

Documentary · 18m

On May 2,1997, Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest human chess player ever, sat down in New York City to do battle with IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. While the much hyped match of man versus machine consisted of six chess games over nine days, there are many who would claim the entire contest was decided in just one move. This short documentary tells the epic tale of how mankind lost to the machine and highlighting what may have been man's ultimate downfall…having emotions.

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Cast

Nate Silver Self Jeremy Schaap Self
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Bruce Pandolfini Self Maurice Ashley Self
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Joel Benjamin Self

Crew

Director
Frank Marshall
Original Music Composer
Paul Pilot, John Stirratt
Editor
Ryan Suffern
Producer
Ryan Suffern

Details

Release date
2014-10-22
Runtime
18m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
The Kennedy/Marshall Company, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN Films