Rematch review — when Garry Kasparov met his match against Deep Blue
The chess master's face frowns over the board: his pieces are dwindling. Calculations click away within the boxy computer sitting opposite him. The master's thoughts whir: 'It wants to take my pawn on B7 and put the Queen on D5. But when I push to F3 it will weaken its King.' But then … his face darkens. In his complacency he has underestimated the machine. He resigns.
The man is Garry Kasparov, the machine Deep Blue and the scene comes early on in Rematch (Disney+), a year before the iconic 1997 tussle that lends itself to the title. This is an irresistible prospect. As The Queen's Gambit showed a few years ago, two giant minds competing intensely over a chess board makes for weirdly compelling
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