In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue chess computer lost to Garry Kasparov -- then the top-rated chess player in the world. In the 1997 rematch, following some software tweaks (and ironically, perhaps thanks ...

Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess is a little movie, but it's packed with a lot of nerdy and a lot of weird.

Computer chess programs can handily beat the best human players in the world—and their games are no less fascinating.

If you imagine somebody playing chess against the computer, you’ll likely be visualizing them staring at their monitor in deep thought, mouse in hand, ready to drag their digital pawn into pl… ...

With help from computer chess software engineer Gary Linscott, these chess pros identify why Stockfish is virtually unbeatable by a human, from opening move to endgame.

Focused on a group of proto-computer nerds involved in a tournament to devise first-rate chess software for their clunky machines, the movie relishes the awkward expressions of brilliance from its ...

Director Andrew Bujalski talks about capturing an authentic vintage geek look and casting real tech heads in his fourth feature. Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I ...

Mumblecore purveyor Andrew Bujalski dives into the world of early computer nerddom with Computer Chess, a quirky, grungy, formally playful comedy about man vs. machine — with a late-breaking ...

Focused on a group of proto-computer nerds involved in a tournament to devise first-rate chess software for their clunky machines, the movie relishes the awkward expressions of brilliance from its ...