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Project Mayhem presents
GAME OVER:
KASPAROV VS. THE MACHINE
SUNDAY 2 MAY 8.00PM
WATERFRONT HALL
In May 1997, before massed ranks of the world’s media,
Garry Kasparov, widely regarded as the greatest chess player
the world has ever seen, played Deep Blue - a hulking, one-and-a-half
ton IBM supercomputer - in a chess tournament and ‘scientific
experiment’.
International interest in the match had exploded. The epic
battle of Man Vs. Machine had captured people’s imaginations.
And the outcome was stunning. To win the match the computer
did what many thought impossible at the time, it appeared
to think like a human.
Directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Vikram Jayanti,
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine takes us on a gripping
cinematic odyssey into the paranoid mindscape of a legendary
chess genius as Kasparov battles to come to terms with the
machine from IBM.
SPEED CHESS TOURNAMENT
The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, in association with the
Ulster Chess Union, is delighted to announce this new tournament
to complement the screening of Game Over.
Running from 1.00pm-6.00pm, games will last 40 minutes and
there will be a total of five rounds. £250 will be available
in cash prizes. Entry fee is £4.00. The tournament will
also be accompanied by an exhibition by Open Window Productions
of the famous Titanic and political chess sets. |
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